Florestas

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The planted forest sector triples its cultivated area in 20 years in Brazil, going from 3 million to over 10 million hectares, generates BRL 240 billion and 720 thousand jobs, but coexistence with biodiversity still divides specialists in the country.

Bruno Teles 04/05/2026 at 20:11

Science and Technology

Nasa’s tool is viral again and lets anyone write names with real images of Earth seen from space, using satellite records from the Landsat program that have been monitoring forests, rivers, and cities for over 50 years.

Carla Teles 29/04/2026 at 16:22

Science and Technology

A rare phenomenon of silent electric flashes in trees on the east coast of the United States intrigues researchers, confirms a century-old suspicion, and raises concerns about invisible environmental impacts.

Caio Aviz 07/04/2026 at 03:10

Science and Technology

Rare phenomenon of silent electric flashes in trees on the east coast of the United States intrigues researchers, confirms century-old suspicion, and raises alarm about invisible environmental impacts.

Caio Aviz 06/04/2026 at 20:57

Science and Technology

With 36 million trees, monitoring towers, and a billion-dollar reforestation goal, a country marked by desertification is betting on the reconstruction of degraded forests to try to change its environmental future.

Ana Alice 23/03/2026 at 13:20

BNDES e Heineken anunciam investimento de R$ 10 milhões para restaurar florestas na área do Aquífero Beberibe e proteger a água que abastece milhões de pessoas (1)

Economy

BNDES and Heineken Announce R$ 10 Million Investment to Restore Forests in the Beberibe Aquifer Area and Protect Water Supply for Millions in Brazil’s Northeast

Carla Teles 09/03/2026 at 16:59

Reconstruções artísticas paleoambientais dos estados dos ecossistemas na Europa Central ao longo dos últimos 23 milhões de anos. As ilustrações retratam paisagens típicas e grandes herbívoros importantes em seis períodos: o Neogeno (origens evolutivas de muitos táxons atuais), o Pleistoceno (linha de base pré- Homo sapiens ) e o Holoceno (ecossistemas moldados pela ação humana). Na maioria dos períodos, as paisagens são mostradas como mosaicos ricos em árvores e flores, mantidos por uma abundância de grandes herbívoros. Somente no Holoceno recente os ecossistemas se tornam densamente arborizados devido à perda de herbívoros ou fortemente moldados pela pecuária e agricultura. Crédito: Márton Zsoldos

Science and Technology

Study Reveals That Europe’s Dense Forests Are Recent and That, For 23 Million Years, The Continent Was Dominated By Open Fields And Flowers

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 03/03/2026 at 09:17

Garrafa de água vira viga da próxima casa MIT imprime em 3D treliças de piso com plástico reciclado, mais leves que madeira e capazes de aguentar mais de 1.800 kg

Science and Technology

Water Bottle Becomes Beam of Next House: MIT 3D Prints Floor Trusses with Recycled Plastic, Lighter Than Wood and Able to Support Over 1,800 kg

Carla Teles 22/02/2026 at 18:43

Estudo científico da Universidade Stanford mostra que plantar bilhões de árvores virou símbolo climático global, mas monoculturas substituem ecossistemas nativos, reduzem biodiversidade, secam rios e podem diminuir o carbono total em vez de capturá-lo

Science and Technology

Stanford University Study Shows Planting Billions Of Trees Has Become A Global Climate Symbol, But Monocultures Replace Native Ecosystems, Reduce Biodiversity, Dry Up Rivers, And May Decrease Total Carbon Instead Of Capturing It

Noel Budeguer 10/02/2026 at 12:53

Science and Technology

Giant, Ancient Trees of the World and the Amazon Are Dying from the Top Down — And Scientists Have Identified the Unexpected Villain That Is Silently, Uniquely, and Astonishingly Destroying Them

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 09/02/2026 at 09:01

Science and Technology

Without Planting Trees: If Left Alone, Giant Rainforests Can Regenerate Themselves on a Continental Scale and Capture Billions of Tons of Carbon, Study Suggests

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 07/02/2026 at 09:59

Amazônia enfrenta mudanças climáticas que alteram a diversidade de árvores e a biodiversidade tropical enquanto regiões viram possível refúgio climático

Science and Technology

After 40 Years of Data, Scientists Reveal Climate Change Is Already Redrawing the Amazon and the Andes, with Warmer, Drier Forests Losing Trees, Others Gaining Species, and Rainfall Emerging as a Decisive Factor in This New Map of Tropical Biodiversity

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 25/01/2026 at 12:36

The planted forest sector triples its cultivated area in 20 years in Brazil, going from 3 million to over 10 million hectares, generates BRL 240 billion and 720 thousand jobs, but coexistence with biodiversity still divides specialists in the country.

Nasa’s tool is viral again and lets anyone write names with real images of Earth seen from space, using satellite records from the Landsat program that have been monitoring forests, rivers, and cities for over 50 years.

A rare phenomenon of silent electric flashes in trees on the east coast of the United States intrigues researchers, confirms a century-old suspicion, and raises concerns about invisible environmental impacts.

Rare phenomenon of silent electric flashes in trees on the east coast of the United States intrigues researchers, confirms century-old suspicion, and raises alarm about invisible environmental impacts.

With 36 million trees, monitoring towers, and a billion-dollar reforestation goal, a country marked by desertification is betting on the reconstruction of degraded forests to try to change its environmental future.

BNDES and Heineken Announce R$ 10 Million Investment to Restore Forests in the Beberibe Aquifer Area and Protect Water Supply for Millions in Brazil’s Northeast

Study Reveals That Europe’s Dense Forests Are Recent and That, For 23 Million Years, The Continent Was Dominated By Open Fields And Flowers

Water Bottle Becomes Beam of Next House: MIT 3D Prints Floor Trusses with Recycled Plastic, Lighter Than Wood and Able to Support Over 1,800 kg

Stanford University Study Shows Planting Billions Of Trees Has Become A Global Climate Symbol, But Monocultures Replace Native Ecosystems, Reduce Biodiversity, Dry Up Rivers, And May Decrease Total Carbon Instead Of Capturing It

Giant, Ancient Trees of the World and the Amazon Are Dying from the Top Down — And Scientists Have Identified the Unexpected Villain That Is Silently, Uniquely, and Astonishingly Destroying Them

Without Planting Trees: If Left Alone, Giant Rainforests Can Regenerate Themselves on a Continental Scale and Capture Billions of Tons of Carbon, Study Suggests

After 40 Years of Data, Scientists Reveal Climate Change Is Already Redrawing the Amazon and the Andes, with Warmer, Drier Forests Losing Trees, Others Gaining Species, and Rainfall Emerging as a Decisive Factor in This New Map of Tropical Biodiversity

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.

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.

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.

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.