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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.

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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Volcanoes can help to combat climate change

Spreading volcanic rock dust on farmland sounds a highly unlikely way to help to combat climate change, but studies show crushed rocks can soak up carbon dioxide from the air, and as an added benefit may also boost crop yields.

| The Times
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This solution to runaway emissions starts with crushed rocks

Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is gaining traction as the world struggles to lower greenhouse gases. The idea: grinding up certain types of rock and spreading them across a large land area can accelerate the Earth's natural rate of carbon absorption.

| Bloomberg
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Farming Today: Green recovery and the budget, Rock dust and soil, clean river swimming

Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Professor David Beerling on BBC Radio Four’s Farming Today programme discusses the potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands. Listen in at 03:40.

| BBC
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News and Views: Removal of atmospheric CO2 by rock weathering holds promise for mitigating climate change

Large-scale removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere might be achieved through enhanced rock weathering. It now seems that this approach is as promising as other strategies, in terms of cost and CO2-removal potential.

| Nature.com
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Applying rock dust to farmlands could suck up 2 billion tons of CO2

“Carbon dioxide drawdown strategies that can scale up and are compatible with existing land uses are urgently required to combat climate change, alongside deep and sustained emissions cuts,” said Professor David Beerling

| The Telegraph