The sound of a bottle popping may be a familiar harbinger of good, but the humble material behind the pop has more uses than ...

There will be a tiny percentage of detectably tainted corks, and for the higher price paid for cork, wine producers will be covered for their tiny losses. Another problem with bottle stoppers ...

Cork is produced from trees and these are never felled. Over the course of the product's entire lifecycle, it is carbon negative overall. It can capture up to 562g of CO2 in its lifetime.

Which is the preferable wine-bottle stopper, cork or screwcap? On aesthetic grounds, cork must win every time. And on grounds of sustainability, as I wrote in March, there is something much more ...

That’s where incentives come in. The cork industry pays Forest Stewardship Council-certified landowners in Portugal, Spain, and Italy 50 cents for every 33 pounds of cork.(Of Portugal’s 1.8 ...

Cork’s compressibility is perhaps most apparent when uncorking a wine bottle, but it can also be felt when wearing a pair of cork-soled shoes, for example, or when walking on cork floors.

How cork — the same material used to seal wine bottles — could save the planet 06:02. Lisbon, Portugal — The sound of a cork popping out of the end of a bottle is known across the world.It ...