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 fast-growing, resilient species of dandelion that could serve as a domestic source for natural rubber for tires is the focus of accelerated commercialization backed by the Department of Defense and ...

Rubber from weeds dates back to World War II shortages—and now it’s back, in FlowerFoam. [Photo: Cole Haan] “The extraction process is not dissimilar from rubber,” says David Maddocks, brand president ...

There’s still a lot of petroleum hanging onto electric cars, specifically around the rims. It takes about seven gallons of oil to make each standard car tire, and the world produces more than 2 ...

A research team has developed a cutting-edge deep learning framework, TM-WSNet, that dramatically improves the accuracy of rubber tree identification and measurement in dense plantation environments.

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 ...