A World Bank study finds that switching from biomass and LPG to electric cooking in Nepal is economically beneficial, ...

Discover the enduring value of thatching in contemporary architecture, blending tradition with sustainable design across the ...

As the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024/25 nears its end and the monsoon begins, road digging and drainage construction works have intensified across various parts of Kathmandu.To exhaust the remaining budget, ...

In the past one and a half months, 10 highly venomous snakes — nine king cobras and a monocled cobra — have been rescued from various locations in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.

On 21 March, the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed an agreement to launch the Sustainable Tourism Project (STP), a $5 million endeavour that aims to ...

Work to restore a 15th century thatched barn in Upminster, east London has been completed. Tithe Barn, which dates back to about 1450 and is among the largest of its kind in England, fell into ...

THUBTEN CHHOLING, Nepal – “Nepal is 100 years behind the times,” Ang Dawa Sherpa lamented as we watched a farmer plow his potato field behind a team of cows. I couldn’t help but notice the ...

An artificial river is under construction, designed to host a Ganga-style aarti every evening. “We want guests to feel what they would in Rishikesh or Kashi,” a staff member explains.

A thick thatched roof topped with purple iris flowers shelters this timber sheep pen in Kyoto, Japan, which has been designed by local architecture practice 2m26. Named Hitsujigoya, meaning sheep ...

So there is a real shortage of the material." Not all thatched properties use straw, which typically need replacing every 25 years, with some homeowners in the East of England using water reed.

Interior of the barn. Image: Historic England In recent years, however, the building's roof has degraded, prompting Historic England to place it on the Heritage at Risk register in 2023.

“Nevertheless, we were lucky and became acquainted with one of the last masters of this traditional building technology, Peter Brada from the village of Hrušov, southern Slovakia,” said Michaela ...