Learn about the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), its natural habitat, ecological role, and benefits. Discover its ...

Extreme weather, including torrential monsoon downpours and a powerful typhoon, reduced rubber production levels in Asia and ...

This dark, leafy green beauty will thrive in your home with these pro tips. Rubber trees, or Ficus elastica, are a pretty ubiquitous houseplant nowadays, alongside fiddle leaf figs and monsteras.

From production to disposal, tires leave a toxic legacy. Discover the hidden environmental costs and potential solutions for ...

Most of its 10,000 inhabitants worked for a giant French rubber plantation, the Societe des Caoutchoucs d’Extreme-Orient, whose trees marched away row upon row, mile after mile, across the low ...

ONE of the first rubber trees planted in Malaysia is now over a century old. It continues to thrive in the heart of Seremban, ...

Since Petch's “The Diseases and Pests of the Rubber Tree” (1921) and Steinmann's “Diseases and Pests of Hevea brasiliensis” (1925) were published, there has been great activity in ...

Rubber tree plants (Ficus elastica) are reasonably easy-to-grow at home, but getting their watering schedules right is vital to ensure they thrive. In my experience, nothing kills a rubber tree plant ...

KUALA KANGSAR: The first rubber tree planted in Malaysia, estimated to be over 140 years old, is now said to be worth almost RM200,000. Kuala Kangsar Municipal Council (MPKK) secretary Saiful Azli ...

Hiratsuka, Japan – Yokohama Rubber Co. (YRC) has joined a research project to develop a new biomass business model to make use of discarded rubber tree seeds.

For more than 30 years Babu Joseph has been tending rubber trees on his small farm in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Kerala used to be home to thousands of producers like him, who made a ...