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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
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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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
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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