Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At home, these beauts boast large, dark green leaves and can be maintained as a medium-size houseplant or grown to impressive ...

Ever since the first European explorers crossed the Atlantic and saw Aztec children tossing rubber balls, an idea has persisted: Why not make something besides toys out of that stuff? Three centuries ...

Michael Fraley, a Vice President with Yulex Corporation, cuts a guayule plant that can be used to make natural rubber, in 2008 David Kadlubowski/Corbis Rubber can be made from the latex of several ...

Eric Mathur is sitting in the backseat of an SUV, rolling south through the Arizona desert. Tall, dark, and bald, he's dressed for a day under the sun. His linen shirt is open at the top, revealing a ...

In the big three of statusy houseplants — with the fiddle-leaf fig and monstera in first and second place, respectively — this burgundy rubber tree is a less-obvious third-place choice, and today only ...