Find out more about our Reverse Course series here. Mary Yap adjusts her hard hat and looks over the cavernous expanse of the Sunrock quarry in Butner, North Carolina. It’s a blast day and Yap is a ...

Mary Yap has spent the last year and a half trying to get farmers to fall in love with basalt. The volcanic rock is chock full of nutrients, captured as its crystal structure forms from cooling magma, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A simple solution for making modern life more sustainable may be right under our feet. A Seattle-based carbon removal company is ...

Weathered rock: columnar basalt at Cape Stolbchaty in Russia. The volcanic rock could be used to soak-up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (Courtesy: Ekaterina Vasyagina/CC BY-SA 4.0) Sprinkling ...

For small scale- where the waste is colocalized - the experiments have this at 10-20 tons per acre per year of application to make it worthwhile. It’s a lot of rock to haul around. Click to expand ...