To make tire production more sustainable, Bridgestone is turning to a desert shrub called guayule as a source of natural rubber. Native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, guayule ...

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, ...

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The sage-green, waist-high shrub guayule might look like just one of the many scraggly bushes that dot the hills and valleys of the Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico and the southwestern U.S. But its ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The largest contiguous natural rubber farm on the planet now owns the world's first ISCC Plus certification for an operation of its kind. Firestone Liberia (Firestone Natural Rubber ...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been leveraged to study the surface defects of natural rubber vulcanizates so that their structural−mechanical properties can be defined. This data is vital to ...

AKRON—It's no secret the U.S. needs to establish a domestic, alternative source of natural rubber. And Katrina Cornish says this needed to happen yesterday. "If you don't have natural rubber, you've ...

When most people think of forest products, they think of wood — lumber and building products — or pulp-based materials such as paper and cardboard. While it is true that these make up the bulk of ...