Catheters, medical and sporting gloves, tires, condoms and some 50,000 other products depend on the more than 15 million tons of natural rubber produced every year, a researcher at Ohio State studying ...

Microcyclus uleivirtually wiped out the Brazilian rubber industry, and while strict quarantine measures adopted in 1955 continue to protect the rubber industry in southeast Asia (which supplies 93 ...

Semiconductor chips don't grow on trees but the raw material for rubber does and that's in short supply too, adding another headache for automakers and tire producers. But one major tire company is ...

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 ...

Halcyon Agri, the natural rubber company, has launched Bounce, a movement to drive industry and consumer change for an equitable natural rubber industry. The supplier said Bounce was a call to action ...

For families in Bandarban, rubber trees provide income, but falling prices, outdated technology, and uncertain land tenure threaten their survival ...