Almost all of the world’s rubber comes from Southeast Asia, but that’s not because it’s the native habitat of rubber trees. The history of how the region came to be a global supplier is also ...

The rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis has a chequered and little-understood social history underlying its status as one of the world's most useful plants. Anthropological insight into its history can ...

Michael Fraley, a Vice President with Yulex Corporation, cuts a guayule plant that can be used to make natural rubber, in 2008 David Kadlubowski/Corbis Rubber can be made from the latex of several ...

Another Rubber Tree Plant. ... Martin is a career rubber guy, first as a scientist at Johnson & Johnson, then as a sales exec for London Rubber Co. and Safeskin Corp. In 1999, ...

For most of the 19th century nearly all of the world’s rubber came from Brazil, home of Hevea brasiliensis, the Pará rubber tree. Manaus, a city reachable only by sailing 1,450km up the Amazon ...

Inameti went on to enumerate other benefits of growing rubber trees, saying apart from giving 14 million metric tons of natural rubber (NR) consumed annually worldwide, the tree can extract 24.9 ...

With the tropical rubber tree under threat from climate change and disease, tire manufacturers are reviving efforts to produce latex from a desert shrub ...