Rubber! It starts out as a goopy material harvested from special trees, and is then processed into a resilient, flexible material used for innumerable important purposes. In the vast majority of ...

Rubber tapping in the forest was once the main Amazonian economic activity, and now an Indigenous group is bringing it back. Partnering with Brazilian organizations, Indigenous Gavião communities find ...

MUMBAI/JAKARTA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Global natural rubber output could drop for a second straight year in 2015 as prices near six-year lows have prompted Asian farmers to curtail tapping during their ...

Rubber plantations have been a main historical cause of tropical deforestation, and are generally responsible for a range of environmental and social ills. But rubber grown in agroforestry systems–in ...

The sage-green, waist-high shrub guayule might look like just one of the many scraggly bushes that dot the hills and valleys of the Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico and the southwestern U.S. But its ...