Caatinga

Agribusiness

Foreign tree planted to combat drought invades more than 1 million hectares of the Caatinga, encroaches on riparian forests, and turns an old solution for the semi-arid region into a silent threat to biodiversity.

Valdemar Medeiros 19/06/2026 at 23:15

Science and Technology

Brazil wants to revive the Caatinga before desertification advances and launches a plan to recover 10 million hectares of degraded land by 2045, with an initial R$ 60 million, cisterns, underground dams, agroforestry, and actions to bring water, food, and income to the Semi-arid region.

Ana Alice 13/06/2026 at 15:05

Economy

Rare honey from the Bahian hinterland attracts scientific attention after a study released in 2026, boosts the local economy, and may help in disease prevention.

Jefferson Augusto 07/06/2026 at 22:11

Science and Technology

The great Atlantic current will lose 51% of its strength by the end of the century even if all countries meet their emission targets, and the reduction of this ocean circulation that balances the global climate could affect Brazilian biomes such as the Amazon and the Caatinga by altering rainfall and temperature patterns.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 18/05/2026 at 22:52

Science and Technology

A rare plant from the Caatinga and unprecedented in the world, Isabelcristinia aromatica had its chemical composition analyzed for the first time and surprised the researchers at Univasf.

Ruth Rodrigues 14/05/2026 at 16:13

Interesting facts

The Brazilian city that hides a 25-million-year-old volcano in the middle of the Caatinga and holds one of the country’s rarest and most impressive geological formations

Ana Alice 25/04/2026 at 23:59

Science and Technology

Discovered in 2026, a new plant from the Caatinga intrigues scientists after centuries “invisible” in nature and was named Machaerium guidone, in honor of archaeologist Niède Guidon.

Ruth Rodrigues 24/04/2026 at 18:17

Projeto no deserto da Arábia Saudita muda o caminho da água, faz o solo voltar a infiltrar chuva e vira exemplo que pode inspirar soluções contra a seca até no Brasil (3)

Science and Technology

Project In Saudi Arabia’s Desert Changes Water Flow, Restores Soil Infiltration, and Becomes Example That Can Inspire Solutions Against Drought Even in Brazil

Carla Teles 09/03/2026 at 14:37

Montes de cupins no Nordeste do Brasil formam um padrão gigante visível por satélite e revelam uma das maiores obras naturais já estudadas.

Interesting facts

Termite City Is In Brazil And Can Be Seen From Space: 200 Million Ancient Mounds Form Giant Geometric Pattern In The Northeast, Larger Than Great Britain And Comparable To Thousands Of Pyramids

Alisson Ficher 30/01/2026 at 20:15

Rio São Francisco cruzando a Caatinga e garantindo a sobrevivência no semiárido

Interesting facts

For Over 3,000 Kilometers, the Old Chico Crosses the Sertão as a Line Between Life and Death, Keeps the Caatinga Alive, and Sustains Millions Where Water Is a Matter of Survival

Felipe Alves da Silva 29/01/2026 at 15:45

Animais da Caatinga exibem comportamentos que indicam a chegada da chuva no sertão brasileiro.

Interesting facts

Few People Know, But Five Animals from the Caatinga Can Predict the Arrival of Rain with Amazing Accuracy, Long Before Any Weather Forecast

Felipe Alves da Silva 29/01/2026 at 12:59

Animais trazidos de fora resistiram ao calor e à seca da Caatinga e moldaram o sertão após dura seleção natural no semiárido brasileiro.

Agribusiness

They Did Not Emerge From the Caatinga: The Resilient Breeds That Conquered the Sertão, Faced Thirst and Extreme Heat, and Today Number Millions – A Brutal Natural Selection Shaped the Champions of the Semiarid Region.

Alisson Ficher 07/01/2026 at 14:15

Foreign tree planted to combat drought invades more than 1 million hectares of the Caatinga, encroaches on riparian forests, and turns an old solution for the semi-arid region into a silent threat to biodiversity.

Brazil wants to revive the Caatinga before desertification advances and launches a plan to recover 10 million hectares of degraded land by 2045, with an initial R$ 60 million, cisterns, underground dams, agroforestry, and actions to bring water, food, and income to the Semi-arid region.

Rare honey from the Bahian hinterland attracts scientific attention after a study released in 2026, boosts the local economy, and may help in disease prevention.

A rare plant from the Caatinga and unprecedented in the world, Isabelcristinia aromatica had its chemical composition analyzed for the first time and surprised the researchers at Univasf.

The Brazilian city that hides a 25-million-year-old volcano in the middle of the Caatinga and holds one of the country’s rarest and most impressive geological formations

Discovered in 2026, a new plant from the Caatinga intrigues scientists after centuries “invisible” in nature and was named Machaerium guidone, in honor of archaeologist Niède Guidon.

Project In Saudi Arabia’s Desert Changes Water Flow, Restores Soil Infiltration, and Becomes Example That Can Inspire Solutions Against Drought Even in Brazil

Termite City Is In Brazil And Can Be Seen From Space: 200 Million Ancient Mounds Form Giant Geometric Pattern In The Northeast, Larger Than Great Britain And Comparable To Thousands Of Pyramids

For Over 3,000 Kilometers, the Old Chico Crosses the Sertão as a Line Between Life and Death, Keeps the Caatinga Alive, and Sustains Millions Where Water Is a Matter of Survival

Few People Know, But Five Animals from the Caatinga Can Predict the Arrival of Rain with Amazing Accuracy, Long Before Any Weather Forecast

They Did Not Emerge From the Caatinga: The Resilient Breeds That Conquered the Sertão, Faced Thirst and Extreme Heat, and Today Number Millions – A Brutal Natural Selection Shaped the Champions of the Semiarid Region.

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

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.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

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.

Heir bought 23,000 degraded acres in the Scottish Highlands, fenced the area, planted nearly 1 million native trees, and transformed empty mountains into a forest officially recognized after meeting 15 evaluation criteria over 20 years.

The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, was covered in flowers and turned into a colorful carpet with more than 200 species in the phenomenon called “desert bloom,” when atypical rains awaken seeds that had remained dormant in the soil for many years.