As Pangea broke up and the plates drifted apart 200 million years ago, magma seeped out of the fissures in the Earth’s crust. That magma became flows of lava, and that lava, rapidly cooling in the air ...

If you can imagine the Pacific Northwest’s towering basalt formations as giant billboards for underground storage tanks, you’re thinking like a scientist. At least you’re thinking like a few ...

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.

U.S. scientists concerned about carbon dioxide (CO 2) leaks from sequestration attempts have been pursuing the option of natural chemical reactions within the earth to turn the carbon back into a ...

For the first time, scientists have injected carbon dioxide into ancient lava flows and watched it solidify, demonstrating that capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or a power plant smokestack ...

WALLULA — A test under way at Wallula could indicate whether some of the carbon dioxide blamed for global warming could be locked up underground in basalt rock formations in the Northwest. Researchers ...

Oregon's state geologist, Ruarri Day-Stirrat, has put forward a new purpose for the ancient volcanic rock lurking beneath the state: storing planet-warming carbon dioxide deep underground to combat ...

Oil Ministry is eyeing Basalt rock formations on India’s west coast—spread over Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa—to establish permanent sites for capturing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2), a step that ...

For the first time, scientists have injected carbon dioxide into ancient lava flows and watched it solidify, demonstrating that capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or a power plant smokestack ...