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 ...

Just last month, Bridgestone received a grant from the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute to research a drought-reistant shrub capable of producing natural rubber outside of the world's ...

Pork Brunly, a small-scale rubber farmer, examines a rubber tree on his farm in Sampeay, 13 kilometres from Stung Treng. IT’S hard to imagine as we bump along the road towards his farm, but Pork ...