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China has a giant rice terrace carved over 1,300 years in the mountains, with up to 3,000 terraces, 82 villages, and 445 km of canals, but the ancestral work that overcame droughts now faces growing tourism, landslides, and rural abandonment.

Carla Teles 21/06/2026 at 15:26

Mining

China could reduce iron ore imports from 80% to 50% of consumption by 2030, while its share in global steel production falls from 52% to 46%, in a shift that could reshape the global market, says CMRG.

Alisson Ficher 20/06/2026 at 20:32

Interesting facts

Humanoid robots appear on the streets of China asking for money with QR Code to pay for energy.

Noel Budeguer 20/06/2026 at 19:41

Interesting facts

Germany and Japan expand defense amid tensions with China, Russia, and doubts about the US

Alisson Ficher 19/06/2026 at 16:41

Industry

Iron ore falls to 762 yuan in China as real estate sales decline and steel production hits lowest level since 2018

Alisson Ficher 19/06/2026 at 16:19

Interesting facts

A convoy of almost 100 meters, 600 tons, and 300 tires crossed villages in China at 5 km/h to transport a giant generator part; the operation required a reinforced bridge, cables lifted by hand, and turns made centimeter by centimeter.

Carla Teles 18/06/2026 at 16:59

Economy

‘The vessel of human civilization has entered dangerous waters, full of reefs and storms’: it was with this apocalyptic tone that China launched an explosive manifesto this Wednesday, full of barbs at protectionism and the “double standards” of Western powers.

Bruno Teles 18/06/2026 at 16:47

Economy

China wants the world to use its currency and has presented a plan for it.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 18/06/2026 at 14:16

Science and Technology

While the world fears the advance of deserts, China is creating a “wall” of thousands of kilometers with dry plant remains buried in the sand to prevent dunes from engulfing highways in one of the most inhospitable regions on the planet.

Noel Budeguer 18/06/2026 at 10:35

Construction

Mega stadium of R$ 2.5 billion financed by China completes perimeter metal structure at 40 meters above ground in El Salvador, with stands and internal systems advancing in parallel towards delivery in 2027

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 17/06/2026 at 22:47

Geopolitics

China off the radar: US plans mega $30 million weapons depot in Australia, out of reach of most Chinese missiles, with full capacity expected by 2028

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 17/06/2026 at 19:56

Interesting facts

Chinese woman finds mountains affected by erosion, starts planting trees, and after 40 years of effort, 200,000 trees have been planted and the landscape has been transformed into an incredible forest.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 17/06/2026 at 16:25

China has a giant rice terrace carved over 1,300 years in the mountains, with up to 3,000 terraces, 82 villages, and 445 km of canals, but the ancestral work that overcame droughts now faces growing tourism, landslides, and rural abandonment.

China could reduce iron ore imports from 80% to 50% of consumption by 2030, while its share in global steel production falls from 52% to 46%, in a shift that could reshape the global market, says CMRG.

Humanoid robots appear on the streets of China asking for money with QR Code to pay for energy.

Germany and Japan expand defense amid tensions with China, Russia, and doubts about the US

Iron ore falls to 762 yuan in China as real estate sales decline and steel production hits lowest level since 2018

A convoy of almost 100 meters, 600 tons, and 300 tires crossed villages in China at 5 km/h to transport a giant generator part; the operation required a reinforced bridge, cables lifted by hand, and turns made centimeter by centimeter.

‘The vessel of human civilization has entered dangerous waters, full of reefs and storms’: it was with this apocalyptic tone that China launched an explosive manifesto this Wednesday, full of barbs at protectionism and the “double standards” of Western powers.

China wants the world to use its currency and has presented a plan for it.

While the world fears the advance of deserts, China is creating a “wall” of thousands of kilometers with dry plant remains buried in the sand to prevent dunes from engulfing highways in one of the most inhospitable regions on the planet.

Mega stadium of R$ 2.5 billion financed by China completes perimeter metal structure at 40 meters above ground in El Salvador, with stands and internal systems advancing in parallel towards delivery in 2027

China off the radar: US plans mega $30 million weapons depot in Australia, out of reach of most Chinese missiles, with full capacity expected by 2028

Chinese woman finds mountains affected by erosion, starts planting trees, and after 40 years of effort, 200,000 trees have been planted and the landscape has been transformed into an incredible forest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two helicopters, 41 people, and over 38 tons of bait were mobilized on a remote Pacific atoll to eliminate rats; five years later, native trees grew by 5,000%, seabirds gained habitat, and the rainforest began to regenerate.