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 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. 8 July 2020 | The Guardian 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. 23 April 2020 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. 26 July 2019 | Climate Policy Journal 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). 29 November 2018 | BBC News Greenhouse gas removal report The Royal Society, in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering, has produced a report and associated summary to outline methods of greenhouse gas removal and how various influences will affect their deployment. 12 September 2018 | The Royal Society Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Current page 9 Page 10 Next page Next › Last page Last »