The world's leading cork maker has launched a campaign against the increasing use of screw caps and plastic stoppers in wine bottles, which it says is a threat to Portugal's forests of cork oaks.

Four months after deadly fires ripped through Portuguese forests and villages, Prime Minister Antonio Costa picked up a spade and planted a cork oak tree.. The move was aimed at offering hope to ...

The Portuguese Cork Association estimates that the forests store about 14 million tons of CO₂ every year. Cork trees can live for up to 200 years, harvested again and again over the decades, she ...

Except for the cell phone hitched to his belt, 79-year-old Jose Joaquin da Silva Perdigao has been harvesting cork in Portugal's forests in much the same way for more than half a century.

Standing under the sprawling branches of the largest cork oak tree in the world, it's obvious where The Whistler Tree gets its nickname. Songbirds perch in the canopy of the Portuguese Monumental ...

Except for the cellphone hitched to his belt, 79-year-old Jose Joaquin da Silva Perdigao has been harvesting cork in Portugal's forests in much the same way for more than half a century.

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The Portugese cork industry, backed by the Portuguese government, is going all out to market the green qualities of cork over aluminum twist-off caps or plastic stoppers.

A harvester hauls away strips of bark from a Portuguese cork tree. The tree will stand for nine years before it is stripped again—if people are still harvesting cork by then.

Either way, the cork eventually grows back, and a cork oak tree can be stripped more than 15 times over the course of its 200-year life span. [Photo: Courtesy EDP] A millennia-old material ...

The Portuguese forest alone, which holds 32% of the global cork oak forest area, has sequestered 4.8 million tons of carbon dioxide, according to a study on cork sustainability.

Standing under the sprawling branches of the largest cork oak tree in the world, it's obvious where The Whistler Tree gets its nickname. Songbirds perch in the canopy of the Portuguese Monumental ...