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Interesting facts

Florida dumped 2 million tires into the ocean near Fort Lauderdale to create an artificial reef, but hurricanes scattered the rubber across the seabed, and cleanup efforts initiated decades later are still trying to correct the environmental disaster without a guarantee of full coral recovery.

Carla Teles 17/06/2026 at 20:33

Interesting facts

More than 50 beaches, 766 marine species, and naturally radioactive sand on the coast: the Brazilian city known as “Cidade Saúde” attracted even Garrincha, idol of the Seleção and Botafogo, and has become a destination for those seeking relief from pain and intrigues researchers after studies indicated a lower incidence of breast cancer.

Ana Alice 04/06/2026 at 22:38

Science and Technology

Authorities in South Carolina have transformed an abandoned torpedo ship that was leaking oil into a protected area: after 4 years stuck in a swamp, the hull was cleaned, taken 32 miles from Charleston, and sunk to become an artificial reef in an operation that swaps an environmental threat for a permanent marine habitat.

Valdemar Medeiros 30/05/2026 at 14:19

Interesting facts

Dubai is sinking 20,000 structures to the seabed to create one of the planet’s largest artificial reefs and transform 600 km² into an underwater city that looks like science fiction, in an attempt to rebuild life where there was once emptiness.

Ana Alice 06/05/2026 at 19:18

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City that lost entire beaches bets on “living speed bumps” at the bottom of the ocean: US$1.8 million project uses artificial reef and promontories to slow down waves, retain sand, and try to reverse decades of erosion in California

Valdemar Medeiros 06/05/2026 at 14:14

Interesting facts

22 life-sized concrete cars were sunk in the waters off Miami Beach to create an underwater traffic jam that will host 2,200 corals and could become the first major artificial marine life corridor in the region.

Ana Alice 14/04/2026 at 09:23

Austrália usa recife submerso com bolsas de geotêxtil cheias de areia para conter erosão costeira e alterar o comportamento das ondas.

Interesting facts

Australia Installs Underwater ‘Reef’ Made of Geotextile Mega Bags Filled With Sand, Combats Erosion and Aims to Create Better Surf Waves

Alisson Ficher 30/01/2026 at 12:46

Mergulhadores criam recife do zero com corais e menos plástico; o projeto de vida marinha renasce no mar e inspira restauração costeira sustentável.

Construction

Divers Divers Construct Reef From Scratch, And One Year Later, It Is Already Thriving With Life; 3,300 Structures And Fixed Corals Have Become Homes For Fish, Crabs, And Predators, Withstood Storms, Reduced Ocean Plastic, And May Inspire Coastal Restoration

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 06/01/2026 at 15:07

SS United States: Lendário transatlântico será transformado em recife artificial e ganha despedida histórica.

Maritime

The Giant SS United States Will Make Its Final Voyage and Be Sunk as an Artificial Reef off the U.S. Coast

Andriely Medeiros de Araújo 09/04/2025 at 20:23

SS United States: O maior e mais rápido transatlântico da história será afundado para se tornar um gigantesco recife subaquático!

Naval Industry

SS United States: The Largest And Fastest Ocean Liner In History Will Be Sunk To Become A Giant Underwater Reef!

Bruno Teles 09/03/2025 at 19:28

Um antigo navio de carga foi transformado em recife artificial ao largo de Key Biscayne na Flórida, com intuito de promover a vida marinha e o turismo de mergulho

Maritime

An Old Cargo Ship Was Transformed Into An Artificial Reef Off The Coast Of Key Biscayne, Florida, Aimed At Promoting Marine Life And Diving Tourism

Rafaela Fabris 29/05/2024 at 16:15

Florida dumped 2 million tires into the ocean near Fort Lauderdale to create an artificial reef, but hurricanes scattered the rubber across the seabed, and cleanup efforts initiated decades later are still trying to correct the environmental disaster without a guarantee of full coral recovery.

Dubai is sinking 20,000 structures to the seabed to create one of the planet’s largest artificial reefs and transform 600 km² into an underwater city that looks like science fiction, in an attempt to rebuild life where there was once emptiness.

City that lost entire beaches bets on “living speed bumps” at the bottom of the ocean: US$1.8 million project uses artificial reef and promontories to slow down waves, retain sand, and try to reverse decades of erosion in California

22 life-sized concrete cars were sunk in the waters off Miami Beach to create an underwater traffic jam that will host 2,200 corals and could become the first major artificial marine life corridor in the region.

Australia Installs Underwater ‘Reef’ Made of Geotextile Mega Bags Filled With Sand, Combats Erosion and Aims to Create Better Surf Waves

Divers Divers Construct Reef From Scratch, And One Year Later, It Is Already Thriving With Life; 3,300 Structures And Fixed Corals Have Become Homes For Fish, Crabs, And Predators, Withstood Storms, Reduced Ocean Plastic, And May Inspire Coastal Restoration

The Giant SS United States Will Make Its Final Voyage and Be Sunk as an Artificial Reef off the U.S. Coast

SS United States: The Largest And Fastest Ocean Liner In History Will Be Sunk To Become A Giant Underwater Reef!

An Old Cargo Ship Was Transformed Into An Artificial Reef Off The Coast Of Key Biscayne, Florida, Aimed At Promoting Marine Life And Diving Tourism

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.