Rubber extracted from forest trees was a major Brazilian commodity in the 1800s and early 1900s. But for the Indigenous Gavião people of this part of Rondônia state, it also meant exploitation ...

Continental A.G. is investing in complex rubber recycling technology for its ContiTech division, commissioning a new pilot ...

Currently, more than 95 percent of the world’s natural rubber supply is extracted from the Para rubber tree, which is native to South America but is largely grown on rubber plantations in South ...

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 ...

By bouncing a soccer ball, a UMBC sophomore realized rubber made from tree sap can hold a lot of energy. So, he took a rubber band and made it into a battery.

But automating the extraction of natural rubber, which is more desirable than its synthetic counterpart for manufacturing, is difficult.

Rubber tapping in the forest was once the main Amazonian economic activity, and now an Indigenous group is bringing it back.