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Breaking ground: Professor makes “rocks for crops” reality in Cameroon

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Slope of Mount Cameroon. Photo by Jean-Baptiste Dodane In the early 2000s, Jean Pierre Nguetnkam, a full professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon, was inspired to start a research program on soil remineralization involving the use of locally sourced natural geologic materials to restore and enrich agricultural soils. […]

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Answering the IPCC Call to Demonstrate Rock Dust’s Potential for Climate Stabilization

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Rock dust being spread onto fields at the Working Lands Innovation Center, UC Davis Institute of the Environment. Photo by Iris Holzer. “Pour ce qui est de l’avenir, il ne s’agit pas de le prévoir, mais de le rendre possible.” (As for the future, it is not a question of predicting it, but of making it

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COP28 Presents Webinar on Advances in ERW and Biochar in India

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Rock Dust Weathering and Biochar Soil Amendments Play a Key Role In India’s Global Leadership of Carbon Dioxide Removal On December 4th, 2023, a group of climate tech experts participated in a panel discussion exploring India’s remarkable potential as a world leader in durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The discussion was held as part of

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