YCNCC News

Scientists worldwide gathered at the Telluride Science & Innovation Center for a YCNCC workshop advancing electrochemcial carbon capture.

YCNCC researchers will be attending OSM26 in Glasgow to share new work on marine carbon dioxide removal.

YCNCC and the Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship co-hosted a panel discussion on scaling CDR across the Global South.

YCNCC Research Associate Jake Thompson advances multi-strategy “carbon farming” method to remediate PFAS contamination of South Carolina croplands.

YCNCC Postdoctoral Fellow Shangshi Liu co-led a study that finds livestock removal from grasslands may reduce long-term soil carbon storage. 

YCNCC News spoke with Professor Noah Planavsky about the importance of transparency to the responsible scaling of carbon dioxide removal.

A two-step method for converting carbon dioxide into carbohydrates has potential applications in agriculture and biotech.

Research led by Professor Lea Winter uses plasma technology to safely mitigate hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), among the most harmful greenhouse gases.

In a new study, Yale chemists describe a method for designing more sustainable catalysts for converting carbon dioxide into formate.

Yale research finds that VCM protocols deliver significantly different crediting outcomes for agricultural soil carbon. (paywall)

Over 20 YCNCC researchers will travel to New Orleans next week to showcase their work at AGU25.

YCNCC researchers explain that real-world project data are needed to assess the effects of cover cropping and other practices on soil carbon storage.

YCNCC scientists join Royal Society meeting to steer global dialogue on enhanced weathering solutions.

YSE News spoke with YCNCC faculty experts about an ambitious funding initiative for tropical forests that was formally launched at COP30. 

New study co-authored by Pete Raymond reveals underestimation of carbon uptake in rivers in arid areas, with global implications.

YCNCC Faculty Paulo Brando connects Indigenous knowledge with scientific methods to monitor and protect the health of threatened Amazon ecosystems.

YCNCC Scientific Leadership Team member Lea Winter receives Connecticut Technology Council award for Research Innovation and Leadership.

Subtropical forests in the Everglades bounce back quickly after fires, reaffirming the need for prescribed burns in the face of a changing climate.

YCNCC researchers awarded major grant to use machine learning to improve MRV for marine CDR.

Climate change drives massive wildfires globally. Burned areas are now up to 35x larger, says the State of Wildfires 2024-2025 report.

YCNCC Faculty Affiliate and Engineering Professor Liangbing Hu has created a “superwood” that is stronger than steel.

YCNCC’s Fall 2025 Research Showcase featured 27 lightning talks on Ecosystem Capture, Geological & Ocean Capture, and Industrial Carbon Utilization.

YCNCC convenes experts from geochemistry, forestry, and soil organic carbon to advance enhanced weathering MRV.

YCNCC welcomed Fall 2025 Visiting Scholar Matthew Potts to campus with a packed schedule of talks, panels, and collaboration on climate solutions.

YCNCC Marine CDR Lead Gabby Kitch presented on “The State of the Science and Social Science on mCDR” at a recent Columbia University symposium.