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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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Catch up with our Theme 1 Modelling progress since 2016

We're starting to summarise all of our Themes' work since we began LC3M in 2016. We're beginning with Theme 1, Earth System Science Modelling, by looking at our modelling research progress from 2016 up to 2023, split into 3 parts chronologically.
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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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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
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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.

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How crushed volcanic rock in farm soil could help slow global warming — and boost crops

A new study explores how planet-warming carbon dioxide could be absorbed using ‘enhanced rock weathering,’ a natural process sped up to fight climate change.

| Inside Climate News
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Farming crops with rocks to reduce CO2 and improve global food security

Pioneering research by LC3M suggests that adding fast-reacting silicate rocks to croplands could capture CO2 and give increased protection from pests and diseases while restoring soil structure and fertility.
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The search is on for pulling carbon from the air

Scientists are investigating a range of technologies they hope can capture lots of carbon without high cost. At the AGU17 conference in San Francisco, Professor David Beerling explained an agricultural technique that could quicken weathering.

| Scientific American