NASCAR, the NBA, Rubber and the Rainforest
Category: IMPACT
As you watch the NBA playoffs this spring, impress your friends with this fact: the idea for those Nikes worn by LeBron James and Kevin Durant was actually born in the rainforests of the northeast Amazon.
By Mark J. Plotkin, Contributor
Ethnobotanist, writer and Amazon explorer. President of the Am..., 2014-02-23