Being a tree crop with over 20 years of economic lifespan and 5 metres (upper limit) height, rubber has an entitlement to be a forest plantation. The eligibility comes under Aforestation and ...

By Timothy J. Killeen The invention of vulcanized rubber (1839), followed by the popularization of bicycles (1870s) and the ...

But deep within Manu's rain forest also lie stories and histories ... After this discovery, demand for rubber trees ran high, and Manu, with its rich bounty of rubber trees, became the perfect ...

The black-and-white photograph shows a man, perched on the edge of a wooden deck, looking down at two objects. At first, you can't take in what they are. In the background are palm trees.

Rubber is produced from the white sap (or latex) of several rain forest trees. The rubber which fueled the so-called "rubber boom" and its related atrocities in the Amazon came from the *Hevea ...

The researchers believe the Maya masons obtained the rubber from local trees and used it as a binder along with a fine-grained clay to create a durable mortar to bind the stonework together.

Hiratsuka, Japan – Yokohama Rubber Co. (YRC) has joined a research project to develop a new biomass business model to make use of discarded rubber tree seeds.