By Sarah Brown In the Igarapé Lourdes Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon, community members gather to listen to ...

Rubber is waterproof, durable and in so many everyday items it would be impossible for our world to exist in this form ...

For most of the 19th century nearly all of the world’s rubber came from Brazil, home of Hevea brasiliensis, the Pará rubber tree.

XAPURI, Brazil (AP) — Rubber tapper Raimundo Mendes de Barros prepares to leave his home, surrounded by rainforest, for an errand in the Brazilian Amazon city of Xapuri. He slides his long ...

A rubber tree is prepared for the removal of rubber in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, Acre state, Brazil, Dec. 6, 2022. Credit: AP/Eraldo Peres ‘Working to find a solution’ ...

By a contract made last year with the State of Para and the Brazilian Government, Mr. Ford promised to plant 3,000 acres of rubber trees within four years.

In the Amazon, the rubber boom was facilitated by new technological developments, industrialization and political change. While in Brazil the rubber barons used a form of debt slavery with their ...

Veja, an expensive global sneaker brand, is making shoes from traditionally-harvested Brazilian Amazon latex in collaboration with local rubber tappers.