Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever seen where corks for wine bottles come from? Neither had plenty of attendees at a Cal Poly event Tuesday, until a team from ...

On May 30, 2024, under the shade of the UC Davis Arboretum’s 80-plus-year-old cork oak grove, a rarely seen exhibition of cork harvesting took place. This traditional practice, unfamiliar to most ...

Cork, the humble material used for centuries to seal bottles, is a unique product not only for the way it's grown, but also for the plethora of inventive uses people have found for it — which go far ...

"I love the romance of it." That's the rationale I hear most often, when consumers talk about pulling the cork from a bottle of wine. It's part history, part ritual, part resistance to synthetic ...

It's all natural, renewable, healthy and has zero embodied carbon. What's not to love? When speaking recently at a Passivhaus conference in Aveiro, Portugal, I mentioned one of my favourite subjects, ...