They could cut our oil use and save thousands from poverty, but rubber trees are being wiped out by disease. Now, one Brazilian forest is bouncing back. Steve Connor pays a visit Heather Couper ...

BRAZIL’S first rubber boom, sparked by the invention of the car, ended abruptly with the successful cultivation of the rubber tree in Asian plantations.

Rubber from the Pará rubber tree is still the best. It is used as a component for car and truck tires in a proportion ranging from 16% to 40% and up to 100% for aircraft tires. In addition, the rubber ...

In the 1930s Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and the Firestone Tire Company set up a joint business venture to look into producing natural rubber from plants other than the Brazilian rubber tree. They ...

Researchers have succeeded in decoding the genome sequence for Hevea brasiliensis, the natural rubber tree native to Brazil. The study reports a draft genome sequence that covers more than 93 ...

The Poinsettia plant, a popular Christmas decoration, is a member of the same family as the Brazilian rubber tree, the source of natural rubber latex.

XAPURI, Brazil (AP) — Rubber tapper Raimundo Mendes de Barros prepares to leave his home, surrounded by rainforest, for an errand in the Brazilian Amazon city of Xapuri. He slides his long ...

Because the rubber plant is native to Southeast Asia, it does prefer warm, tropical climates. That said, the rubber plant is fairly flexible though and will fare just fine in moderate temperatures ...

Since 2005, the U.S. orange crop has been crippled by a disease called "citrus greening," which sours oranges; Brazilian rubber trees, meanwhile, have been hit by a fungus that renders them unusable.