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.

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 ...

Limiting climate change will require, in addition to strong reductions of emissions, the removal and safe storage of large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. One promising option for ...

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 ...

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 ...

After drilling a well in the Columbia River Basalt formation and testing its properties, the team injected CO2 into it in 2013. Core samples were extracted from the well two years later, and Pete ...

The geology of Washington state varies wildly from region to region, belying the great medley of events -- ancient and more recent, catastrophic and systematic-- that formed it. And in no part of the ...

Organ Pipes is one of the smallest national parks in Victoria, and the basalt volcanic columns are truly magnificent.

At first glance, they feel like a peaceful coastal getaway. But beneath that calm lies a dramatic geological story that goes ...