cidade flutuante

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With nearly 1.6 km and a capacity for 80,000 people, a floating city aims to navigate the planet with 30 decks, hospitals, schools, a stadium, and nuclear energy, but it has been struggling for 30 years to move from paper to reality in the ocean as a mobile megacity never before constructed.

Carla Teles 09/06/2026 at 23:38

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Floating city in the middle of the Pacific was built with 750,000 tons of basalt on reefs and reveals how an ancient civilization moved 5-ton blocks across the ocean without metal, wheels, or modern machines.

Ana Alice 14/05/2026 at 23:36

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USS Gerald R. Ford: the floating city of $13 billion where 5,000 sailors serve 17,000 meals a day, sleep in stacked bunks, take 10-liter showers, and keep 75 fighter jets ready.

Carla Teles 04/04/2026 at 11:41

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With 250,000 Tons, 365 Meters Long and Capacity for Nearly 10,000 People, the Icon of the Seas Transformed the Cruise Concept into a Floating City Powered by Natural Gas

Noel Budeguer 10/03/2026 at 06:58

Porta-aviões nuclear de 333 metros funciona como cidade flutuante com 4.500 pessoas, reatores nucleares, hospital, produção própria de água e até 18 mil refeições por dia (1)

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333-Meter Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Functions as Floating City with 4,500 People, Nuclear Reactors, Hospital, Own Water Production, and Up to 18,000 Meals Per Day in the Open Ocean

Carla Teles 05/03/2026 at 12:40

Cidades flutuantes ganham o mundo, prometem abrigar milhões de pessoas contra o avanço do mar, mas custos bilionários e casas de US$ 250 mil revelam o problema real por trás da ideia

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Floating City Megaprojects Take the World by Storm, Promising to House Millions Against Rising Seas, but Billion-Dollar Costs and $250,000 Homes Reveal the Real Problem Behind the Idea

Flavia Marinho 08/02/2026 at 21:18

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No Streets, No Cars, and No Ground: The Floating City, The Largest in Africa, On a Lake Where Thousands Live on Boats Every Day in a Unique Way of Life

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 29/01/2026 at 08:56

Vista de Veneza com canais do mar Adriático, estacas de madeira emergindo da água e edificações históricas sustentadas por fundações submersas.

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Venice Defies Time Built Over the Sea With Millions of Wooden Piles, Precise Medieval Engineering, and an Aquatic Urban System That Has Sustained the City of Canals, Bridges, and Islands in Northern Italy for Over a Thousand Years

Caio Aviz 16/01/2026 at 18:52

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The World’s Largest Cruise Ship Is So Luxurious It Feels Like A Floating Theme Park, Complete With Pools, Water Parks, And A Casino Fit For Las Vegas

Noel Budeguer 03/11/2025 at 11:03

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Venice: The City That Has Floated For Over 1,000 Years and Defies Time

Roberta Souza 04/10/2025 at 10:27

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Engineering Miracle: Floating City with Buildings on Wooden Pilings, 150 Canals, and 400 Bridges Looks Like a Movie, but It Exists

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 02/08/2025 at 11:22

Com proposta de abrigar 20 mil pessoas sobre o mar, projeto de cidade flutuante impressiona pelo conceito, mas avança lentamente

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With Proposal to House 20,000 People Over the Sea, Floating City Project Impresses With Its Concept but Advances Slowly

Valdemar Medeiros 01/06/2025 at 11:36

With nearly 1.6 km and a capacity for 80,000 people, a floating city aims to navigate the planet with 30 decks, hospitals, schools, a stadium, and nuclear energy, but it has been struggling for 30 years to move from paper to reality in the ocean as a mobile megacity never before constructed.

Floating city in the middle of the Pacific was built with 750,000 tons of basalt on reefs and reveals how an ancient civilization moved 5-ton blocks across the ocean without metal, wheels, or modern machines.

USS Gerald R. Ford: the floating city of $13 billion where 5,000 sailors serve 17,000 meals a day, sleep in stacked bunks, take 10-liter showers, and keep 75 fighter jets ready.

With 250,000 Tons, 365 Meters Long and Capacity for Nearly 10,000 People, the Icon of the Seas Transformed the Cruise Concept into a Floating City Powered by Natural Gas

333-Meter Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Functions as Floating City with 4,500 People, Nuclear Reactors, Hospital, Own Water Production, and Up to 18,000 Meals Per Day in the Open Ocean

Floating City Megaprojects Take the World by Storm, Promising to House Millions Against Rising Seas, but Billion-Dollar Costs and $250,000 Homes Reveal the Real Problem Behind the Idea

No Streets, No Cars, and No Ground: The Floating City, The Largest in Africa, On a Lake Where Thousands Live on Boats Every Day in a Unique Way of Life

Venice Defies Time Built Over the Sea With Millions of Wooden Piles, Precise Medieval Engineering, and an Aquatic Urban System That Has Sustained the City of Canals, Bridges, and Islands in Northern Italy for Over a Thousand Years

The World’s Largest Cruise Ship Is So Luxurious It Feels Like A Floating Theme Park, Complete With Pools, Water Parks, And A Casino Fit For Las Vegas

Venice: The City That Has Floated For Over 1,000 Years and Defies Time

Engineering Miracle: Floating City with Buildings on Wooden Pilings, 150 Canals, and 400 Bridges Looks Like a Movie, but It Exists

With Proposal to House 20,000 People Over the Sea, Floating City Project Impresses With Its Concept but Advances Slowly

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.

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.

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.