http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:31:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/09/drilling-for-carbon-eating-rocks-in-suburban-new-york/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/09/drilling-for-carbon-eating-rocks-in-suburban-new-york/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:32:42 +0000 Kim Martineau http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=17403 Under the shopping malls and highways of suburbia, there might one day be a partial fix for global warming. Since August, engineers have been drilling just west of the Tappan Zee Bridge to collect samples of rock from the Newark Basin, an ancient rock formation stretching beneath New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. As they [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/09/drilling-for-carbon-eating-rocks-in-suburban-new-york/feed/ 0