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‘Capital do Diamante’ is in Brazil and surprises by recording only 12.7 °C, the lowest temperature in the Northeast, surpassing cities from three states in the official Inmet ranking and revealing a little-known side of Chapada Diamantina.

Alisson Ficher 19/06/2026 at 09:51

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Extratropical cyclone brings storms to the South on Monday after a weekend with heavy rain, winds up to 100 km/h, and risk of hail, warns INMET forecast.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 23/05/2026 at 21:31

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INMET forecasts rainfall up to 100 mm above average in the north of Amapá and northeast of Pará between May and July 2026, while the excess moisture raises an alert for harvest, grain quality, and diseases in the second-crop corn in the southeast of Pará and Tocantins.

Valdemar Medeiros 20/05/2026 at 12:09

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Rains above 60 mm in the North and parts of the Northeast, as well as isolated storms with lightning and wind gusts in the South, according to INMET’s forecast for May 20 to 27.

Andriely Medeiros de Araújo 20/05/2026 at 09:37

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Heavy rain may hit the North and Southeast between May 18 and 25, according to INMET’s forecast, with accumulations above 200 mm in Amazonas and intense showers between Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, and Espírito Santo.

Carla Teles 20/05/2026 at 09:31

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May raises a climate alert in Brazil, with Amazonas, Pará, and Roraima experiencing below-average rainfall, while weekly cold fronts advance through Southern Brazil, dropping temperatures in South-Central Brazil, and preceding a shift that could bring heat back before the end of winter in 2026.

Valdemar Medeiros 02/05/2026 at 08:31

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An extratropical cyclone advances over Brazil and turns the Labor Day long weekend into a nightmare for 534 cities. Brutal storms with winds of 100 kilometers per hour and torrential rain threaten to bring down trees, destroy crops, and leave thousands of families without power.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 01/05/2026 at 08:09

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Extratropical cyclone advances over 4 Brazilian states with destructive winds of 100 km/h, 100 mm of rain in a single day, real risk of hail, flooding, and destruction this Sunday, with a maximum danger alert issued by Inmet.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/04/2026 at 15:47

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Maximum alert for the South: an extratropical cyclone puts 24 cities in Rio Grande do Sul in danger this Sunday, with gusts of up to 60 km/h, intense rain, and risk of flooding, fallen trees, and power outages.

Ana Alice 25/04/2026 at 23:24

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Inmet issued a danger alert for 363 municipalities in the South of Brazil with a forecast of winds up to 100 km/h, heavy rain, and hail, which could knock down trees and cut power this Thursday.

Bruno Teles 22/04/2026 at 23:11

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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

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Inmet issues an orange alert for heavy rains in nine states with a risk of destructive winds and flooding, while the South of Brazil wakes up to temperatures below 10 degrees in the mountainous region.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 17/04/2026 at 22:43

‘Capital do Diamante’ is in Brazil and surprises by recording only 12.7 °C, the lowest temperature in the Northeast, surpassing cities from three states in the official Inmet ranking and revealing a little-known side of Chapada Diamantina.

Extratropical cyclone brings storms to the South on Monday after a weekend with heavy rain, winds up to 100 km/h, and risk of hail, warns INMET forecast.

INMET forecasts rainfall up to 100 mm above average in the north of Amapá and northeast of Pará between May and July 2026, while the excess moisture raises an alert for harvest, grain quality, and diseases in the second-crop corn in the southeast of Pará and Tocantins.

Rains above 60 mm in the North and parts of the Northeast, as well as isolated storms with lightning and wind gusts in the South, according to INMET’s forecast for May 20 to 27.

Heavy rain may hit the North and Southeast between May 18 and 25, according to INMET’s forecast, with accumulations above 200 mm in Amazonas and intense showers between Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, and Espírito Santo.

May raises a climate alert in Brazil, with Amazonas, Pará, and Roraima experiencing below-average rainfall, while weekly cold fronts advance through Southern Brazil, dropping temperatures in South-Central Brazil, and preceding a shift that could bring heat back before the end of winter in 2026.

An extratropical cyclone advances over Brazil and turns the Labor Day long weekend into a nightmare for 534 cities. Brutal storms with winds of 100 kilometers per hour and torrential rain threaten to bring down trees, destroy crops, and leave thousands of families without power.

Extratropical cyclone advances over 4 Brazilian states with destructive winds of 100 km/h, 100 mm of rain in a single day, real risk of hail, flooding, and destruction this Sunday, with a maximum danger alert issued by Inmet.

Maximum alert for the South: an extratropical cyclone puts 24 cities in Rio Grande do Sul in danger this Sunday, with gusts of up to 60 km/h, intense rain, and risk of flooding, fallen trees, and power outages.

Inmet issued a danger alert for 363 municipalities in the South of Brazil with a forecast of winds up to 100 km/h, heavy rain, and hail, which could knock down trees and cut power this Thursday.

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.

Inmet issues an orange alert for heavy rains in nine states with a risk of destructive winds and flooding, while the South of Brazil wakes up to temperatures below 10 degrees in the mountainous region.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.