BARRAGENS

Construction

The river rose 15 meters overnight and devastated a village in Vietnam in 2025, and Japan responded with dams that hold back mud and stones, training 15,000 people for evacuation, and a sewage station for 1 million residents.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 20/06/2026 at 02:17

Science and Technology

With only 300 kg and military-grade precision radar, the first Chinese satellite exclusively for engineering enters orbit to track dams and predict structural collapses 24 hours a day.

Alisson Ficher 31/05/2026 at 14:35

Construction

Santa Catarina invests R$ 1 billion against the risk of El Niño, accelerates work on dams, cleans rivers, delivers 641 bridges and 126 water trucks, and prepares 295 municipalities for heavy rains, floods, and landslides still in 2026.

Carla Teles 30/05/2026 at 18:08

Science and Technology

After years of drought, Morocco wants to transform 1.7 trillion liters of seawater per year into supply, connect desalination to a green line of 1,400 km, and use the ocean to bring water inland, sustain agriculture, and tackle the water crisis that is afflicting the country.

Ana Alice 15/04/2026 at 21:18

Remoção de US$ 500 milhões em um dos rios mais importantes para o salmão no oeste dos EUA retira quatro barragens, libera migração após mais de 100 anos e usa sonar para medir sinais do renascimento

Science and Technology

Removal Of Four Dams On One Of The Most Important Rivers For Salmon In The Western U.S. Mobilizes $500 Million, Reopens Migration After More Than 100 Years And Uses Sonar To Measure Signs Of Revival

Noel Budeguer 25/01/2026 at 07:51

Estados Unidos desmonta barragens e desencadeia um efeito dominó: 420 milhas são reabertas para o salmão, temperaturas e vazões mudam, e o ecossistema começa a se reconstruir

Science and Technology

United States Dismantles Dams in Largest Dam Removal Project in the World to Open 420 Miles of Habitat for Salmon: A Domino Effect Alters Temperatures and Flows, and the Ecosystem Begins to Rebuild

Noel Budeguer 24/01/2026 at 21:57

Barragens removidas impulsionam restauração fluvial nos rios da Grã-Bretanha, recuperam biodiversidade aquática, liberam migração de peixes e redesenham paisagens hídricas históricas.

Interesting facts

Great Britain Dismantles Dams, Rivers Are Freed After Centuries, Fish Return to Migrate, Beds Are Redesigned, Wetlands Re-emerge, and Concrete Removal Reveals How to Restore Freshwater, Biodiversity, and Entire Landscapes Degraded by Historical Engineering

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 23/01/2026 at 17:13

Suécia remove barragens na taiga nórdica, reconecta o rio Vindel, promove remoção de barragens e restaura biodiversidade aquática em 84 km livres.

Interesting facts

Sweden Dismantles Forgotten Dams in the Taiga, Rivers Flow Freely Again, Fish Return in Days, 84 Kilometers Reconnected, and a Silent Project Demonstrates How Removing Concrete Can Restore Entire Landscapes, Lost Biodiversity, and Historic Natural Corridors That Were Blocked

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 14/01/2026 at 21:54

Barragens com rejeitos radioativos ameaçam colapso de barragens, causam contaminação de rios e deixam agricultura afetada em três continentes.

Science and Technology

Earthquakes Expose Soviet-Era Dams Filled With Radioactive Waste in Kyrgyzstan and Reignite Global Alarm Over Collapse That Could Contaminate Rivers, Agriculture, and Millions of People in Central Asia

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 11/01/2026 at 11:56

Projeto aprovado amplia utilidade pública de barragens e altera três leis ambientais, permitindo intervenções na Mata Atlântica sem exigência federal

Agribusiness

Commission Approves Bill That Eases Permit For Dam Construction For Irrigation And Allows Cutting Of Primary Vegetation In The Atlantic Forest By Amending Three Environmental Laws

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 04/12/2025 at 19:22

Obras de Pedreira e Duas Pontes avançam e reforçam abastecimento hídrico, ampliando vazão e capacidade de armazenamento para municípios paulistas

Construction

São Paulo Accelerates Two Dams That Are Already Over 58% Completed and Will Store 85 Billion Liters of Water

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 20/11/2025 at 00:20

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Dam Safety Enters New Era With Unprecedented Technology From Norte Energia in Belo Monte

Caio Aviz 02/09/2025 at 13:49

The river rose 15 meters overnight and devastated a village in Vietnam in 2025, and Japan responded with dams that hold back mud and stones, training 15,000 people for evacuation, and a sewage station for 1 million residents.

With only 300 kg and military-grade precision radar, the first Chinese satellite exclusively for engineering enters orbit to track dams and predict structural collapses 24 hours a day.

Santa Catarina invests R$ 1 billion against the risk of El Niño, accelerates work on dams, cleans rivers, delivers 641 bridges and 126 water trucks, and prepares 295 municipalities for heavy rains, floods, and landslides still in 2026.

After years of drought, Morocco wants to transform 1.7 trillion liters of seawater per year into supply, connect desalination to a green line of 1,400 km, and use the ocean to bring water inland, sustain agriculture, and tackle the water crisis that is afflicting the country.

Removal Of Four Dams On One Of The Most Important Rivers For Salmon In The Western U.S. Mobilizes $500 Million, Reopens Migration After More Than 100 Years And Uses Sonar To Measure Signs Of Revival

United States Dismantles Dams in Largest Dam Removal Project in the World to Open 420 Miles of Habitat for Salmon: A Domino Effect Alters Temperatures and Flows, and the Ecosystem Begins to Rebuild

Great Britain Dismantles Dams, Rivers Are Freed After Centuries, Fish Return to Migrate, Beds Are Redesigned, Wetlands Re-emerge, and Concrete Removal Reveals How to Restore Freshwater, Biodiversity, and Entire Landscapes Degraded by Historical Engineering

Sweden Dismantles Forgotten Dams in the Taiga, Rivers Flow Freely Again, Fish Return in Days, 84 Kilometers Reconnected, and a Silent Project Demonstrates How Removing Concrete Can Restore Entire Landscapes, Lost Biodiversity, and Historic Natural Corridors That Were Blocked

Earthquakes Expose Soviet-Era Dams Filled With Radioactive Waste in Kyrgyzstan and Reignite Global Alarm Over Collapse That Could Contaminate Rivers, Agriculture, and Millions of People in Central Asia

Commission Approves Bill That Eases Permit For Dam Construction For Irrigation And Allows Cutting Of Primary Vegetation In The Atlantic Forest By Amending Three Environmental Laws

São Paulo Accelerates Two Dams That Are Already Over 58% Completed and Will Store 85 Billion Liters of Water

Dam Safety Enters New Era With Unprecedented Technology From Norte Energia in Belo Monte

Libya built over 4,000 kilometers of underground pipelines to bring water from the Sahara to coastal cities in a project that the government itself called the Eighth Wonder of the World.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.

He transformed an abandoned plastic water tank into an underground house in the “hobbit hole” style, using only repurposed pallet wood, without heavy machinery or expensive labor.

Toyota launches “family hybrid van” with 7 or 8 seats, 1.8 hybrid engine, fuel consumption of up to 23.8 km/l, and a price equivalent to about R$ 104,000 without taxes, below the Tiggo 8 Pro Plug-in Hybrid sold in Brazil: meet the Noah Hybrid 2026 in Japan.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Described by astronauts as one of the most unlikely natural phenomena on Earth, the Okavango Delta spreads over up to 15,000 square kilometers in the middle of the desert and transforms Botswana into a living labyrinth of channels, islands, and flooded areas.