News News stories The latest updates from the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation. 27 March 2024 The Carbon Business Council publishes its new Enhanced Rock Weathering primer, and the Enhanced Weathering Alliance launches The Carbon Business Council publishes its new Enhanced Rock Weathering primer, in tandem with the launch of the Enhanced Weathering Alliance. Our Director, Prof David Beerling, has advised on this exciting new policy primer. 16 July 2024 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. 10 July 2024 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 (image credit Dimitar Epihov, Leverhulme Centre, University of Sheffield) 28 February 2024 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. Search How battered rainforests recover Former forest areas can regenerate with the help of soil bacteria. The microbes provide enough nutrients to stimulate plant regrowth. An abundance of leguminous tree species grows in tropical forests, but how do legumes obtain the necessary minerals? 28 June 2021 | Frankfurter Allgemeine LC3M Students discuss climate goals with the public at HUG festival LC3M PhD students presented and answered questions from the public at HUG Green Arts Festival. The festival aimed to assist connection around climate change. An educational seminar was held by members of the University of Sheffield and Nottingham. 26 June 2021 | Moorlands Climate Action Green sand beaches could erase carbon emissions By spreading a unique green sand over a Caribbean beach, Project Vesta hopes to pull tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and lock it away for eons. Once placed on the beach, the green sand sequesters carbon all on its own. 20 June 2021 | Freethink Sheffield researchers awarded £4.7m for major new greenhouse gas removal demonstration project A team of scientists have been awarded £4.7m to develop a large multi-partner research project looking at the scientific, economic and social acceptability of using rock dust in agriculture to capture greenhouse gases. 28 May 2021 World-first carbon sequestration trial launches in Wales A carbon sequestration trial has been unveiled in Carmarthenshire. More than 25,000 new trees will be planted on 28 acres of land, aiming to accelerate and enhance the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through reforestation. 27 May 2021 | Wales Farmer Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Current page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »