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The latest updates from the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation.
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Read the 2024 LC3M Annual Newsletter

Missed our annual newsletter this year? Catch up on all our news by reading it online in your browser. We've captured all our activities, from theme updates across all of our work packages, to new papers and press engagement.

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A logo on a turquoise planet, reading LC3M and We're recruiting: Exeter/OU, against a background of a field of crops

Our team is hiring - University of Exeter/OU applicaton closes 31st July

We're looking for someone with modelling experience and an interest in climate policy and agriculture to join our team at the University of Exeter.

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LC3M milestones - a visual guide to 2024

In this visual guide, see our key points, including landmark papers, field trial firsts, press moments and external funding obtained from our Centre's launch in 2016 up to 2024.

Enhanced weathering test fields of soybean at the Energy Farm, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign
Enhanced weathering test fields of soybean at the Energy Farm, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign (image credit Dimitar Epihov, Leverhulme Centre, University of Sheffield)

New paper out! Field trials reveal crushed rock boosts carbon removal and improves crop yields

Read the press release for our new paper on CO2 removal and increased crop yields via Enhanced Rock Weathering, recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Read the March 2023 LC3M Annual Newsletter

Missed our annual newsletter? Catch up on March 2023's edition here.
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Introducing the new RockFACE website

Find out more about our RockFACE trial in Illinois, US, on its very own brand new website.
David Beerling at Cardiff University graduation with Professor Nick Pidgeon.

LC3M Director awarded Honorary Doctorate

David Beerling was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from his alma mater Cardiff University, for his ‘outstanding contributions to science’. He said “I’m delighted and incredibly proud to have been recognised by Cardiff University in this way.”

| Cardiff University
A wind turbine in an oilseed rape field

Low-carbon energy grids could help rock dust absorb more CO2

Greener electricity grids could help us to use rock dust to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reach net zero much quicker, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Sheffield.
Faces of Learned Society of Wales new fellow, including Professor David Beerling

Professor David Beerling elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales

Congratulations to our Director, Professor David Beerling FRS and now FLSW, on being elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. David says: “I’m delighted and honoured to be elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.”

| The Learned Society of Wales