Beaches around the world come in many colors, from the familiar golden and white sands to rarer hues like pink, red, and even green. However, one of the most striking variations is black sand beaches, ...

Spreading crushed stone across farm fields could inexpensively pull CO2 from the air while also increasing yields. But it ...

The basalt of Beacon Rock, 57,000 years old. It's black, it's fine-grained lava, but the walls of the Columbia River Gorge, both on the Oregon side and the Washington side are made out of basalt ...

One way to find water worlds beyond our solar system could be to look for minerals — or more specifically, to study minerals mixed with cool lava on exoplanet surfaces. This is because if water ...

Mineral carbonation is an innovative approach to mitigating climate change by permanently storing carbon dioxide (CO2) in geological formations, particularly in basaltic rocks. This process ...

Lava flowed across the land and as it cooled ... The Giant’s Causeway is an area of column-like basalt rocks, which was created in a volcanic eruption around 60 million years ago.

Lava flowed across the land and as it cooled ... The Giant’s Causeway is a coastal area with basalt rocks that look like columns. It was created by a volcano. Many plants and animals live ...