Modern transportation depends on natural rubber harvested from a single species of tree, yet almost all of the world’s supply now comes from vast monoculture plantations in Southeast Asia. If a ...

Agriculture Minister Dr. J. Alexander Nuetah has clarified the status of a longstanding compensation arrangement involving farmers whose rubber trees were removed during the expansion of the Liberia ...

A Norwich start-up company aims to save the natural rubber industry by using dandelion roots grown without soil as a more sustainable source ...

By Michael Kofi Fosu For more than a decade, a quiet crisis has unfolded in Ghana’s Western and Central regions. While thousands of hectares of rubber trees are tapped, local processing factories — ...

It was still dark when we left Zamboanga City around 4 a.m. to embark on a bumpy ride to the municipality of Sirawai, a coastal town nestled in the Zamboanga Peninsula.

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaf shapes play an important role in tree identification, providing key ...

Coconut farmers join a rubber nursery tour in Bayugan City under the Upland Sustainable Agri-forestry Development (Usad) program promoting farm diversification. —PHOTOS COURTESY OF AUSTRALIAN ...

IN 1986 Horton-in-Ribblesdale poet Anna Adams published a collection of poetry called “Trees In Sheep Country”.