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The latest updates from the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation.
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.

Basalt is applied to harvested soybean fields at the University of Illinois Energy Farm in November 2019
Basalt is applied to harvested soybean fields at the University of Illinois Energy Farm in November 2019. 2019 was the first year of soybean production in basalt-treated fields in Illinois

New on the blog - Illinois field trials update 2016-2025

Continuing our series of theme summaries, here we're recapping of the progress and findings from our Energy Farm field trial in Illinois in the US, from 2016 to 2025.

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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.

View the newsletter in your browser
A photo showing one of the enrichment rings at the RockFACE site

Introducing the new RockFACE website

Find out more about our RockFACE trial in Illinois, US, on its very own brand new website.
David Beerling at Cardiff University graduation with Professor Nick Pidgeon.

LC3M Director awarded Honorary Doctorate

David Beerling was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from his alma mater Cardiff University, for his ‘outstanding contributions to science’. He said “I’m delighted and incredibly proud to have been recognised by Cardiff University in this way.”

| Cardiff University
A wind turbine in an oilseed rape field

Low-carbon energy grids could help rock dust absorb more CO2

Greener electricity grids could help us to use rock dust to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reach net zero much quicker, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Sheffield.
Faces of Learned Society of Wales new fellow, including Professor David Beerling

Professor David Beerling elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales

Congratulations to our Director, Professor David Beerling FRS and now FLSW, on being elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. David says: “I’m delighted and honoured to be elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.”

| The Learned Society of Wales
Sugar beet at a farm in South East England, cultivated with basalt

Managing UK agriculture with rock dust could absorb up to 45 per cent of the atmospheric carbon dioxide needed for net-zero, research shows

Adding rock dust to UK agricultural soils could absorb up to 45 per cent of the atmospheric carbon dioxide needed to reach net zero, according to a major new study led by scientists at the University of Sheffield.