The Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona is the hottest desert in the United States. The climate is severe, delivering an extreme contrast between aridity and moisture thanks to its warm subtropical ...

A UK biotechnology company developing sustainable natural rubber from specially engineered dandelions has secured £3.4m in ...

For more than a decade, Jody Scott tended shrubs in a dry field in southern Arizona. A lifelong farmer of myriad crops, Scott calls this the most boring thing he’s ever grown. And growing it, he said, ...

If you watched the 2022 Indy Car Music City Grand Prix, you might have noticed—between the multitude of crashes, that is—cars running Firestone tires with green stripes. The green denotes the use of ...

The Biden administration is targeting water conservation and climate goals with funds for desert-grown guayule with Bridgestone tire company. ELOY, Arizona — In the parched desert Southwest, ...

Euronews Business looks at the factors impacting the rubber market this year, while also exploring how sustainable farming practices like agroforestry may impact the rubber industry. Natural rubber ...

Over 4 million hectares of tree cover – an area equivalent to the size of Switzerland – may have been cleared to make space for rubber plantations since the 1990s. Out of all the rubber planted, 1 ...

If you've watched IndyCar racing over the past couple of years, you may have seen some of the cars using green tires with a difficult-to-pronounce name. The name is guayule, pronounced why-OO-lee.

The rubber plant, also known as ficus elastica is a member of the Moraceae family and originates from Asia, particularly India, Malaysia and Java, this is according to Feng Shui research. In the wild ...

Ivorian farmer Affoua Mea decided one day she'd had enough. Despite years cultivating rubber trees on the plantation inherited from her father, her brothers still held the purse strings. Last year, ...