This state park in Sonoma County offers plenty of hiking trails, but it's the vibrant fields of wildflowers that are the real ...

The U.S. military wants to continue live-fire training at Pohakuloa, a high-altitude plateau on Hawaii’s Big Island ...

The basalt quarry, straddling the border with Wayne, is a century old, and it has remained in the Braen family for more than 75 years. Philip DeVencentis is a local reporter for NorthJersey.com.

We were hidden away between a river and two freeways until a local man’s hustle and yellow handwritten signs catapulted us to ...

The basalt quarry, straddling the border with Wayne, is a century old, and it has remained in the Braen family for more than 75 years. Philip DeVencentis is a local reporter for NorthJersey.com.

“When we saw our first massive mountains of basalt dust,” she says, “we knew that this could actually be a meaningful solution.” 50,000 tons of stone are blown up at the Sunrock Quarry in ...

The basalt found in Duluth's abandoned quarry shared properties with a sample brought to Earth on Apollo 11, so researchers ground down the basalt into the very first lunar simulant.

Earlier, a basalt quarry was granted clearance in the same village this year in less than a month. The Goa-SEIAA approved the proposal under certain conditions.

Plans to convert farmland near Wallan into the city’s most water-wise suburb have stalled as the Victorian government considers a competing proposal to open a quarry.

Goldich found the lunar material had striking similarities to a sample he took from a 50-meter-long basalt band stretching across the face of West Duluth’s abandoned quarry, now Quarry Park.