Industry
The Panama Canal does not run on seawater but on rain, and every giant ship that crosses dumps about 200 million litres of fresh water into the ocean, which is why a drought can choke world trade
By Bruno Teles · June 24, 2026
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Industry & Mega-Builds
Dams, tunnels, bridges, reactors and data centers, the record-breaking engineering reshaping the modern world.
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Denmark just sank the first of 89 giant concrete tubes into the Baltic Sea to build the world's longest immersed tunnel, which will turn a 45 minute ferry to Germany into a 7 minute train ride
By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · June 24, 2026
Industry
Saudi Arabia has almost no rivers, so it drinks the sea, and its newest mega-plant just stopped burning oil to do it, turning 600 million litres of seawater into drinking water a day
By Bruno Teles · June 24, 2026
Industry
China opened the world's highest bridge in Guizhou on September 28, 2025, its deck soaring 625 meters above the Beipan River, nearly nine times the height of the Golden Gate
By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · June 23, 2026
Industry
China has begun building a 137 billion dollar megadam in the Himalayas that will generate three times the power of the Three Gorges, and two countries downstream are worried
By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · June 23, 2026
Industry
Climeworks switched on Mammoth, the world's largest carbon-sucking plant designed for 36,000 tonnes a year, but in its first ten months it verifiably removed about 105
By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · June 23, 2026
Industry
Big Tech is restarting a dead nuclear reactor to feed its AI, with Microsoft paying to bring 835 megawatts back online at Three Mile Island after six years dark
By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · June 23, 2026
Industry
China opened the world's longest expressway tunnel on December 26, 2025, a 22.13 kilometer bore through the Tianshan Mountains that cuts an hours-long crossing to about 20 minutes
By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · June 23, 2026