You'd hardly know this hilly property near Sebastopol was once a quarry where miners and mules dug up the shale needed for Sonoma County's early roads. Now lush groves of bamboo cover the once-denuded ...

A study in Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts presents scalable ultrastrong bamboo strips using "interfacial homogeneous ...

Conservationists are celebrating the success of an impressive project. After lots of hard work and dedication, the group removed invasive bamboo from Stroud Preserve in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

It’s bad news for pandas. Up to half of the world's 1,200 woody bamboo species are in danger of extinction, a UN report has revealed. Urgent action is needed to protect the plants and the species that ...

Trees used for hardwood take decades to mature, so it's not the most eco-friendly choice. This alternative delivers the same strength without harming nature.

Sometimes, the best technology isn’t a technology at all. Bamboo,the fast-growing grass plant, common to Africa, Asia and South America, is a natural, renewable and low-carbon material with the ...

A provincial-level nature reserve for bamboo in southwest China's Sichuan Province was upgraded last week to state-level nature reserve by the State Council, China's cabinet. The Changning Nature ...

As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to protect people from earthquakes. When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador ...