ilhas artificiais

Ports and Shipyards

China builds at sea an automated terminal of 2.23 million m², equivalent to 312 football fields, with 7 berths for giant ships, 26 remote cranes, and 130 driverless vehicles to move up to 8 million containers per year and keep Shanghai ahead of Singapore, Ningbo-Zhoushan, and Shenzhen in global logistics.

Valdemar Medeiros 20/05/2026 at 17:17

Interesting facts

Gigantic island with 400 empty buildings in China exposes a billion-dollar megaproject surrounded by ghost cities, 14 km² of artificial land, and plans for 700,000 residents who never arrived, revealing the silent collapse of global urbanism.

Alisson Ficher 30/04/2026 at 20:43

Interesting facts

The lost city of Nan Madol challenges logic by emerging in the middle of the Pacific with canals, geometric islands, and tons of stone that were moved without known technology.

Caio Aviz 08/04/2026 at 16:31

Interesting facts

Since the Aztecs, farmers in Mexico have built artificial islands surrounded by canals and maintain a highly productive system that still challenges the logic of conventional agriculture today.

Débora Araújo 04/04/2026 at 16:42

Brincadeira em happy hour com suposto álcool em gel em bebida vira demissão em gigante de bebidas, expõe limite nas empresas e serve de alerta para funcionários e líderes corporativos (1)

Interesting facts

$14 Billion Islands In Dubai, Designed As A Luxurious Map Of The World, Sink, Distort The Sea, Become Ghost Archipelago And Serve As A Brutal Warning Against Trying To Challenge Nature

Carla Teles 17/02/2026 at 15:05

Singapura empurra o mar para trás, cria bairros inteiros sobre ilhas artificiais, move mais de 200 milhões de m³ de solo dragado e constrói um megaporto logístico

Construction

Singapore Pushes Back The Sea, Creates Entire Neighborhoods On Artificial Islands, Moves Over 200 Million Cubic Meters Of Dredged Soil, And Builds A Mega Logistics Port That Redefines Urbanism In Southeast Asia — Tuas Megaport Land Reclamation

Débora Araújo 21/01/2026 at 15:11

Milhões de metros cúbicos de rocha retirados de túneis e obras não viraram entulho em Hong Kong: foram reaproveitados em aterros que criaram novos bairros e infraestrutura sobre o mar

Construction

Millions Of Cubic Meters Of Rock Removed From Tunnels And Construction Projects In Hong Kong Were Not Wasted: They Were Reused In Landfills That Created New Neighborhoods And Infrastructure Over The Sea

Geovane Souza 04/01/2026 at 15:45

Com diques marítimos, ilhas artificiais e bilhões em obras costeiras, a Indonésia tenta conter o afundamento acelerado de Jacarta e impedir que a capital seja engolida pelo mar

Construction

With Maritime Dikes, Artificial Islands, and Billions in Coastal Works, Indonesia Tries to Curb the Rapid Sinking of Jakarta and Prevent the Capital from Being Swallowed by the Sea

Débora Araújo 02/01/2026 at 11:27

Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel: 37 km entre viadutos e túneis submersos, com 4 ilhas artificiais. Entenda por que a estrada some no mar.

Interesting facts

With 23 Miles of Crossings Between Bridges and Two Underwater Tunnels, This Road ‘Disappears’ Into the Sea and Connects Two Regions

Alisson Ficher 26/12/2025 at 21:19

Infraestrutura, pistas e portos em recifes aterrados: a criação de ilhas artificiais reforça a presença e aumenta a tensão

Science and Technology

Satellite Images Reveal How China Created Artificial Islands After 12 Years of Dumping Sand Into the Ocean and Transforming Reefs Into Dry Land

Noel Budeguer 26/12/2025 at 13:27

Árvore cai na Amazônia e revela mistério arqueológico milenar, contendo sete urnas funerárias sob suas raízes

Interesting facts

Tree Falls in the Amazon Revealing Ancient Archaeological Mystery, Containing Seven Funeral Urns Beneath Its Roots, and Researchers Discover Ancestral Rituals with Indigenous Engineering of Artificial Islands

Geovane Souza 10/11/2025 at 14:14

O arquipélago do Oriente Médio que criou ilhas artificiais só para milionários europeus — e agora cobra até R$ 100 mil por diária em casas flutuantes

Interesting facts

The Middle Eastern Archipelago That Created Artificial Islands Just for European Millionaires — And Now Charges Up to R$ 100,000 Per Night for Floating Homes

Valdemar Medeiros 07/07/2025 at 17:21

Gigantic island with 400 empty buildings in China exposes a billion-dollar megaproject surrounded by ghost cities, 14 km² of artificial land, and plans for 700,000 residents who never arrived, revealing the silent collapse of global urbanism.

The lost city of Nan Madol challenges logic by emerging in the middle of the Pacific with canals, geometric islands, and tons of stone that were moved without known technology.

Since the Aztecs, farmers in Mexico have built artificial islands surrounded by canals and maintain a highly productive system that still challenges the logic of conventional agriculture today.

$14 Billion Islands In Dubai, Designed As A Luxurious Map Of The World, Sink, Distort The Sea, Become Ghost Archipelago And Serve As A Brutal Warning Against Trying To Challenge Nature

Singapore Pushes Back The Sea, Creates Entire Neighborhoods On Artificial Islands, Moves Over 200 Million Cubic Meters Of Dredged Soil, And Builds A Mega Logistics Port That Redefines Urbanism In Southeast Asia — Tuas Megaport Land Reclamation

Millions Of Cubic Meters Of Rock Removed From Tunnels And Construction Projects In Hong Kong Were Not Wasted: They Were Reused In Landfills That Created New Neighborhoods And Infrastructure Over The Sea

With Maritime Dikes, Artificial Islands, and Billions in Coastal Works, Indonesia Tries to Curb the Rapid Sinking of Jakarta and Prevent the Capital from Being Swallowed by the Sea

With 23 Miles of Crossings Between Bridges and Two Underwater Tunnels, This Road ‘Disappears’ Into the Sea and Connects Two Regions

Satellite Images Reveal How China Created Artificial Islands After 12 Years of Dumping Sand Into the Ocean and Transforming Reefs Into Dry Land

Tree Falls in the Amazon Revealing Ancient Archaeological Mystery, Containing Seven Funeral Urns Beneath Its Roots, and Researchers Discover Ancestral Rituals with Indigenous Engineering of Artificial Islands

The Middle Eastern Archipelago That Created Artificial Islands Just for European Millionaires — And Now Charges Up to R$ 100,000 Per Night for Floating Homes

Engineers want to carve through Africa with a giant canal to bring water from the world’s second-largest river to a dying lake on the edge of the Sahara Desert that has already lost 90% of its water.

A giant brown band visible from space, approximately 8,850 kilometers long, connected Africa to America in the Atlantic Ocean, and satellites revealed that it is neither land nor pollution, but the largest accumulation of seaweed in the world, which broke records in 2025.

Workers were opening a modern road in Dover when they found, 6 meters below the asphalt, a 3,500-year-old boat made of stitched oak and plant fibers.

Instead of burning or burying old tires, an American city is transforming about 2,000 of them into the street itself, paving its first sections with a quieter and more durable rubber asphalt.

In just one cast, fishermen are surprised to capture 14,096 mullets in Bombinhas and close a historic season with 58,000 fish; scene recorded in the Santa Catarina paradise marks the last day of the 2026 season.

Russia brings to life a prototype of a supersonic passenger jet and aims for the return of commercial flights above the speed of sound with the promise of less noise near airports.

Consumers eat six times more chicken than in the 1960s, global meat supply quadruples in 60 years, and FAO report reveals the invisible cost on the plate: livestock could drive 80% of the increase in agricultural emissions over the next decade.