“Art comes from one side of the brain. And business comes from the other,” Bill Rau, antiques dealer and proprietor of New Orleans’s 108-year-old M.S. Rau, tells AD PRO over the phone from his French ...

Catie Leary writes and curates visual stories about science, animals, the arts, travel, and the natural world. Giant's Causeway is perhaps the world's most extraordinary and well-known example of ...

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, ...

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.

A hard, dense volcanic rock that can be found in most countries across the globe, basalt is an igneous rock, which means it began in a molten state. For many years, basalt has been used in casting ...

Instead of applying crushed limestone to balance pH levels in fields, some farmers are trying crushed basalt. It can trap carbon and could help fight climate change. Agriculture is one of the sectors ...

Columnar jointing is a common feature in many basaltic lava flows and intrusions around the world. Spectacular arrangements of columns have fascinated observers for centuries, and numerous hypotheses ...