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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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A sprinkle of rock dust could help avoid catastrophic climate change

Spreading rock dust on cropland around the world could save around a tenth of humanity’s ‘carbon budget’, the amount of carbon dioxide we can afford to emit without triggering catastrophic levels of global warming.

| New Scientist
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Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts of CO2 from air

Spreading rock dust on farmland could suck billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air every year, according to the first detailed global analysis of the technique. Treating half of farmland could capture 2bn tonnes of CO2 per year.

| The Guardian
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Dr Maria Val Martin awarded prestigious UKRI Future Leadership Fellowship

LC3M Senior Scientist Dr Maria Val Martin is honoured to be one of four scientists at the University of Sheffield awarded a Future Leadership Fellowship by UKRI, recognising her outstanding research at the forefront of innovation in the UK.
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Beyond Carbon Pricing: Policies for Carbon Dioxide Removal

What policies are needed to implement carbon dioxide removal? Read the latest blog from LC3M Researcher, Dr Emily Cox at Cardiff University and Neil Edwards, Professor of Earth System Science at the Open University.

| Climate Policy Journal
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Climate change: Can 12 billion tonnes of carbon be sucked from the air?

BBC Science Editor, David Shukman, reports on the hopes for potentially removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere including research by Professor David Beerling and the team at the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (LC3M).

| BBC News