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 million ...

A landmark proteomic and phosphoproteomic study shows that ethylene boosts rubber tree latex yield by activating the MAPK ...

According to the study published in the Journal of Taylor and Francis, titled ‘How 75 years of rubber monocropping affects soil fauna and nematodes as the bioindicators for soil biodiversity quality ...

For years, deforestation risk related to natural rubber has attracted far less attention than palm oil, despite both being ...

Returning the biomass from logging to the soil and planting legume cover crops enable rapid restoration of the main soil functions, just 18 months after clear-cutting of an aging rubber plantation. A ...

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TOKYO — With a goal of doubling natural rubber harvest volumes by 2035, Bridgestone Corp. is planning to invest $26.7 million in the coming five to six years in its natural rubber (NR) plantations in ...

KOTTAYAM: For more than a century, the pre-dawn hours in Central Travancore, the heartland of rubber plantations, have ...

On a warm January day in 1924, W.E.B. Du Bois looked out over an abandoned plantation, a forest of more than 200,000 rubber trees, in neat rows, on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. The ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Rubber plantations have been a main historical cause of tropical deforestation, and are generally responsible for a range of environmental and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Last year, Mongabay visited the Salala Rubber Corporation in Liberia, which has been accused of sexually abusing women working on its plantation ...