Cement is responsible for about 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and demand is growing as the population booms.

One of the primary problems in horizontal shales is that the harsh environments in subterranean basins require lighter slurries to prevent breaking down the formation during the cement job. A ...

An alum’s cement alternative could significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from concrete production. Last summer, in the dusty basement of a building in Seattle, workers poured about 60 tons of ...

“You know, cement is everywhere,” Nikolaos Vlasopoulos, an environmental engineer at Imperial College in London, says while sitting in a brightly lit college conference room in a hulking seven-story ...