Orientales, Serge Arnaudiès discovered a 300- or 400-year-old cork oak. Recognized as the tallest in the world and labeled an ...

In the campaign video, Schneider travels to Portugal on a mission to "save Miguel" -- an oak tree in the heart of the cork-growing region. He ends up in a bar toasting Miguel's health in red wine.

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 ...

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 ...

Cork oaks grow slowly, live for more than 100 years, are resistant to fire and use little water. By law, the harvesters cannot touch a tree until it is 25 years old, and then it can be stripped ...

Cork is essential to Portugal’s economic and cultural identity. Portuguese babies hear lullabies about cork; children study it in school. It is against the law to cut down a cork oak.

Amorim is the world’s largest cork producer. It takes 25 years for a cork tree to start to produce cork and be profitable, according to APCOR, the Portuguese Cork Association.

The Portuguese cork industry, backed by the Portuguese government, is undertaking an American-style campaign with a green twist. Actually, “twist” might be the wrong word, because the campaign ...

A tree in its prime, at 80 years old, can yield 440 pounds of cork. That’s enough raw material to produce about 25,000 natural wine corks.

This cute cylindrical shelter made from renewable Portuguese cork is the perfect place to spend some quality time outdoors. Designed in collaboration between Ana Correia, Vasco Lopes, Vera Gomes ...

The cork is stripped from the trees every nine to 12 years, according to Evans, and harvesting does not damage the tree. The supplier she uses dyes the strips for her in 15 different colors.