The roots of Taraxacum kok-saghyz, a species of dandelion known as TK that has proven to be a valuable alternative to natural rubber trees. Photo credit: Farmed Materials. A tire company is ...

[Photo: Cole Haan] “The extraction process is not dissimilar from rubber,” says David Maddocks, brand president of Cole Haan. “With rubber, you tap a tree like making syrup. With this . . . you take ...

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, ...

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 ...

In the middle of this oddest of all odd election seasons, I bought a set of tires for my truck. They were made in Vietnam. This was not my first encounter with Vietnamese rubber products. In 1969 and ...

Rubberwood is the name given to lumber from the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), which is a tree producing latex to produce natural rubber. (Other names today include parawood and Malaysian oak.) ...