Even the most superb wine won’t last without its cork, but the quality of this renewable oaken resource has nose-dived in recent years. A new genetic study of trees that produce high- and low ...

Try 100,000 corks on the tree instead. Portugal’s 230-year-old Whistler Tree is reputed to be the largest cork oak in the world. (Yep, that’s what cork trees are called.) While most cork oaks ...

Cork grows as a thick protective layer of outer bark, much thicker in the cork oak than in any other tree. Strange as it is to see a stripped cork oak with its lower 12 or 15 feet of dark inner ...

And so the creators behind a designer bag are hoping that their fashion item will actually be beneficial to the environment—as the bag is made from cork tree bark. Natacha Seroussi and her ...

However, harvesting cork from a cork tree doesn't kill the tree, and in fact, it grows back eventually, making cork a renewable resource. Even cooler, it's done totally by hand, so there's very ...