From the forested hills of Sơn La, ethnic minority women are turning bamboo shoots into a stable livelihood ... Overexploitation of forests has made wild bamboo shoots increasingly scarce, leaving household incomes precarious.
An airport made of bamboo? A tower reaching 20 metres high? For many years, bamboo has been mostly known as the favourite food of giant pandas, but a group of engineers say it's time we took it seriously as a building material, too.
When it comes to America’s leading food cities, Miami hasn’t always been part of the conversation ...Japanese culture is evident throughout the space and cuisine, from the art on the walls, to the bonsai and bamboo trees and the minimalist furniture ... .
Bamboo slips scroll in Han Dynasty... Newly analyzed bamboo texts dating back over 2,000 years have uncovered what researchers call the earliest known Chinese writings focused on horse care and management.
V. ietnam’s contemporary political development is best understood as a sequence of distinct phases, with the strategic imperative of each determined by historical circumstances ... .
Bamboo has a reputation problem ...Originally from South America and Asia, bamboo is one of the most extraordinary plants on earth, with more than 1,400 species ... Running bamboo - a pest plant in Auckland ... Bamboo doesn't spread by birds or wind.
In test plots across western Jamaica, bamboo clumps bent under ferocious winds, absorbed torrential rain, and then within weeks began to recover ... bamboo pulp mill planned for Friendship, Westmoreland.
THE Department of Education (DepEd) will start distributing bamboo desks in selected schools next month. Executive Order 879, Series of 2010, mandated "a 20 percent bamboo allocation for school furniture."
Engineers from the University of Warwick have led the creation of the world’s first structural engineering manual for bamboo, a milestone aimed at accelerating low-carbon construction globally.
University of Warwick engineers have led the creation of a significant milestone manual for bamboo engineering, which will drive the low-carbon construction sector ... It is the first structural engineering manual for bamboo in the world.