chuvas intensas

Science and Technology

Rains of up to 200 mm already have a date to advance over Brazil: atmospheric phenomenon, cyclone, and moisture river may cause intense storms in 6 states and put millions of people on alert in the coming days.

Felipe Alves da Silva 05/06/2026 at 13:50

Science and Technology

UN issues new warning today: chance of El Niño increases even further and the world, including Brazil, needs to prepare for severe climate events.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 02/06/2026 at 20:08

Interesting facts

Mayor Nilda of Parnamirim decrees a state of emergency after devastating rains caused flooding and a drainage collapse, and activates the Armed Forces in an urgent operation to prevent the crisis from worsening.

Felipe Alves da Silva 28/04/2026 at 18:09

Science and Technology

Inmet warns of heavy rains, winds of up to 100 km/h, risk of power outages, and flooding this holiday eve in ten Brazilian states.

Andriely Medeiros de Araújo 20/04/2026 at 16:11

Interesting facts

Researchers from the University of Oxford discovered that 140 years of annual rainfall above 1,000 mm led to the collapse of the Shijiahe civilization about 3,950 years ago: lakes expanded, plains were flooded, and an entire population abandoned their cities for the mountains, in a pattern similar to what climate models project for coastal cities in the current century.

Valdemar Medeiros 24/03/2026 at 15:05

Indústria mineira sofre com apagão produtivo após chuvas intensas na Zona da Mata; 40% da capacidade industrial foi comprometida.

Accidents

Zona da Mata Faces Historic Production Blackout After Heavy Rains

Sara Aquino 28/02/2026 at 19:02

Alerta laranja prevê chuvas intensas, frente fria e queda de temperatura em grande parte do Brasil após o Carnaval.

Interesting facts

Orange Alert for Storms in Brazil: Cold Front Brings Heavy Rains and Cold Temperatures

Sara Aquino 18/02/2026 at 22:17

Chuvas intensas colocam Sudeste e Centro-Oeste em alerta. Previsão indica acumulados elevados, risco de tempestades e transtornos até quarta-feira.

Science and Technology

Heavy Rains Put Southeast and Midwest on Alert: Forecast Predicts Up to 200 mm, Risk of Severe Storms, Flooding, and Urban Disruptions

Andriely Medeiros de Araújo 02/02/2026 at 13:58

Enxurradas e alagamentos urbanos causados por chuvas intensas afetam cidades de Minas e acionam a Defesa Civil.

Municipalities

Heavy Rains Cause Flash Floods, Urban Flooding, and Damage in Minas

Sara Aquino 24/01/2026 at 16:33

Chuvas colocam estados em alerta vermelho com risco de enchentes e deslizamentos causados pela ZCAS, elevando ameaça à vida em áreas urbanas do Brasil.

Science and Technology

Brazil Enters Red Alert: Persistent Rains and Extreme Volumes Threaten Historic Flooding, Devastating Landslides, Urban Collapse, and Direct Risk to Life in Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, and Goiás in the Coming Days

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 20/01/2026 at 14:22

Chuvas intensas rompem trecho da BR-364 no Acre, isolando cidades e causando alagamentos em Rio Branco; Defesa Civil em alerta.

Accidents

Highway Section Breaks Due to Rain, Leaving Cities Isolated

Alisson Ficher 24/02/2025 at 13:33

Rains of up to 200 mm already have a date to advance over Brazil: atmospheric phenomenon, cyclone, and moisture river may cause intense storms in 6 states and put millions of people on alert in the coming days.

UN issues new warning today: chance of El Niño increases even further and the world, including Brazil, needs to prepare for severe climate events.

Mayor Nilda of Parnamirim decrees a state of emergency after devastating rains caused flooding and a drainage collapse, and activates the Armed Forces in an urgent operation to prevent the crisis from worsening.

Inmet warns of heavy rains, winds of up to 100 km/h, risk of power outages, and flooding this holiday eve in ten Brazilian states.

Zona da Mata Faces Historic Production Blackout After Heavy Rains

Orange Alert for Storms in Brazil: Cold Front Brings Heavy Rains and Cold Temperatures

Heavy Rains Put Southeast and Midwest on Alert: Forecast Predicts Up to 200 mm, Risk of Severe Storms, Flooding, and Urban Disruptions

Heavy Rains Cause Flash Floods, Urban Flooding, and Damage in Minas

Brazil Enters Red Alert: Persistent Rains and Extreme Volumes Threaten Historic Flooding, Devastating Landslides, Urban Collapse, and Direct Risk to Life in Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, and Goiás in the Coming Days

Highway Section Breaks Due to Rain, Leaving Cities Isolated

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.

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.

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.

Without her own home and pressured by rent, a 25-year-old bought a small 15-meter boat, gradually renovated the interior by herself, transformed the interior with paint, new flooring, a larger bathroom, and started living on the canals, paying much less per month.

A city has planted 880,000 trees and 2.5 million smaller plants since 2016, reduced the temperature by up to 3°C in some areas, and won an international award for using vegetation to combat urban heat in Colombia.

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.