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The latest updates from the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation.
Find out about how funding from the Leverhulme Trust has helped LC3M's work on enhanced rock weathering for carbon dioxide removal.

New video about LC3M from the Leverhulme Trust

We're so delighted to share this short video about our enhanced rock weathering work at LC3M, from our funders at the Leverhulme Trust.

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New on the blog - Australian field sites recap 2016-2025

As part of our series of theme summaries, we're catching up with each key aspect each theme. Kicking off our Theme 3 field sites series is our recap of the progress and findings from our Australian field trials, Hesp and Howe.
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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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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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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.

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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.

| Wales Farmer
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Soil microbe transplant could improve tree growth and remove more CO2

The soil equivalent of a faecal microbiome transplant and the effect of sprinkling rock dust are to both be tested at scale in tree-planting schemes to see if they can turbocharge the amount of carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere.

| NewScientist