Publications

Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security

David J. Beerling et al, Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security, Nature Plants (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41477-018-0108-y, Published 19th February 2018.

Young People’s Burden: Requirement of Negative CO₂ Emissions

Hansen, J., Sato, M., Kharecha, P., von Schuckmann, K., Beerling, D. J., Cao, J., Marcott, S., Masson-Delmotte, V., Prather, M. J., Rohling, E. J., Shakun, J., and Smith, P.: Young People’s Burden: Requirement of Negative CO₂ Emissions, Earth Syst. Dynam. Discuss., doi:10.5194/esd-2016-42, Published: 18 July 2017.

Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security?

David J. Beerling
Biol. Lett. 2017 13 20170149; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0149. Published 5 April 2017 as part of the mini-series “Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security”.

Potential of global croplands and bioenergy crops for climate change mitigation through deployment for enhanced weathering

Ilsa B. Kantola, Michael D. Masters, David J. Beerling, Stephen P. Long, Evan H. DeLucia
Biol. Lett. 2017 13 20160714; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0714. Published 5 April 2017 as part of the mini-series “Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security”.

Climate change mitigation: potential benefits and pitfalls of enhanced rock weathering in tropical agriculture

David P. Edwards, Felix Lim, Rachael H. James, Christopher R. Pearce, Julie Scholes, Robert P. Freckleton, David J. Beerling

Biol. Lett. 2017 13 20160715; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0715. Published 5 April 2017 as part of the mini-series “Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security”.

Accelerating the carbon cycle: the ethics of enhanced weathering

H. Lawford-Smith, A. Currie
Biol. Lett. 2017 13 20160859; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0859. Published 5 April 2017 as part of the mini-series “Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security”.

Simulating carbon capture by enhanced weathering with croplands: an overview of key processes highlighting areas of future model development

Lyla L. Taylor, David J. Beerling, Shaun Quegan, Steven A. Banwart
Biol. Lett. 2017 13 20160868; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0868. Published 5 April 2017 as part of the mini-series “Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security”.

Perceptions of enhanced weathering as a biological negative emissions option

Nick F. Pidgeon, Elspeth Spence
Biol. Lett. 2017 13 20170024; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0024. Published 5 April 2017 as part of the mini-series “Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security”.