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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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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.

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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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Can rock dust be a climate fix for agriculture?

Scientists are dusting crop fields with pulverized rocks to supercharge the chemical process that grabs carbon from the air and sequesters it in the soil. All while increasing crop yields.

| Food and Environment Reporting Network
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How adding rock dust to soil can help get carbon into the ground

Researchers are finding that when pulverised rock is applied to agricultural fields, the soil pulls far more carbon from the air and crop yields increase. Some scientists say this method shows significant benefits for farmers and the climate.

| Yale Environment 360
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Power to the people

Dr Emily Cox suggests that to meet our decarbonisation goals, CO2 removal technologies are needed at scale. We need significant financial support, as well as mechanisms that can systematically build trust and dialogue across all parts of society.

| Geoscientist
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Geological solutions for carbon dioxide removal

To meet targets set in the Paris Agreement, we must stop emissions and actively strip carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Colleagues discuss enhanced rock weathering and carbon mineralisation, that show promise for CO2 removal.

| Geoscientist
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BBC Radio Four '39 Ways to Save the Planet' – Magical Rockdust

Discover how sprinkling rockdust on farm fields could help capture more carbon on the BBC Radio Four series '39 Ways to Save the Planet' featuring LC3M partner Rachael James, Professor of Geochemistry within the School of Ocean and Earth Science.

| BBC Sounds