Bamboo

Bamboochi: Handcrafted and customisable, bicycles made out of bamboos are in for the long haul

It’s been five years now that Pathak has been creating bicycles out of bamboo, a passion-driven enterprise he’s christened, ‘Bamboochi’.

IKEA looking at West Bengal as a sourcing hub, says West Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra

Swedish furniture retail company IKEA has evinced interest in sourcing products from West Bengal, state Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Tuesday said

Kin of Odisha elephant attack victims to receive speedy compensation, says Principal Chief Conservator of Forests Debabrata Swain

The PCCF stressed the need for awareness programmes in schools, colleges and villages to reduce man-elephant conflict in Odisha.

India can answer its environmental woes by involving local communities under Biological Diversity Act

One example of citizen participation comes from the Mendha Lekha village in Maharashtra, which recorded and tracked its biological wealth in 2004.

Watch: End of the line for Cambodia's homegrown 'Bamboo Train'

With a wooden platform jerry-rigged to a small engine, Cambodia's one-of-a-kind "Bamboo Train" delights tourists as it clatters through bucolic countryside — but its days are numbered as the Southeast Asian nation plans a railways overhaul.

Wacom Launches New Bamboo Edition Tablets

The new multi-touch and pen tablets are targeted at those wanting to create personalised digital content like drawings and other forms of art.

Whoa! Panda accused of faking pregnancy to get five-star treatment

Pandas are generally associated with being lazy. But a panda at Taipei zoo in Taiwan pulled a clever one on zoo worker's.

Giant pandas have not evolved to eat bamboo, says study

Despite two million years of munching almost exclusively on bamboo, the giant panda's gut has not adapted to eating the plant - putting the creatures in an "evolutionary dilemma", scientists said.