Capturing and storing carbon dioxide will be critical to avoiding the worst impacts of ...

On the banks of the Columbia River, tall columns of rock poke out from the cliffs. “So you see all of these black rocks that are on either side of us, on either side of the river? Those are basalts.

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - In a win for both farmers and environmentalists, researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have successfully quantified the CO2-reduction potential of ...

To avoid the worst effects of climate change, many billions of metric tons of industrially generated carbon dioxide will have to be captured and stored away by the end of this century. One place to ...

In a forest filled with birch and oak trees on the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland, a startup will soon begin spreading crushed basalt rock on the ground. The goal: to run a large-scale ...

Agriculture is responsible for more than 10% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and some in the industry are looking for ways to reduce their carbon ...

A team of researchers, including scientists from the University of Leeds, has discovered a new type of basalt while drilling into the Pacific Ocean floor. The discovery of the new variety of basalt ...

An international team of researchers unearthed the previously unknown form of basalt after drilling through the Pacific ocean floor. Peridotite is composed mostly of greenish magnesium-iron-silicate ...