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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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Jurassic era CO2 claim belongs with the dinosaurs

A Facebook user claims atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were 30 times higher during the Jurassic Period than at present, going on to suggest current levels of the greenhouse gas are lower than ever. Read the analsis on why this is not true.

| AAP Factcheck
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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?

| Frankfurter Allgemeine
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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.

| Moorlands Climate Action
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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.

| Freethink
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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.