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YCNCC is excited to announce new members of its Science Leadership Team, as well as the addition of several new Faculty Affiliates.

YCNCC research shows adding crushed limestone to fields can potentially remove CO2 at scale and low cost while boosting crop yields.

Faculty Affiliate Oswald Schmitz on how reintroducing European bison boosts carbon capture and biodiversity through ‘trophic rewilding’.

Faculty Affiliate Liangbing Hu has been elected a fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS), one of the discipline’s highest honors.

As tons of plastic waste continue to build up in landfills every day, Yale researchers have developed a way to convert this waste into fuels..

The climate benefits of cross-laminated timber may outweigh earlier concerns but only if managed responsibly

Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic – this practice can also help remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

Researchers from YCNCC shared their latest work on enhanced weathering at the Goldschmidt 2025 Conference..

New YCNCC-Supported Research Highlights Role of Soils, Roots, and Biota in Tropical Forest Restoration..

YCNCC scientists weigh in on tropical forest degradation, biodiversity loss, and pathways to restoration.

Adding lime to agricultural soils can remove CO2 from the atmosphere, rather than cause CO2 emissions, claims new YCNCC-led research

A new analysis of Everglades wetlands shows that this slow creep of salt can boost total carbon storage, if managers leave space for mangroves.

Researchers have developed an efficient system to extract and convert dissolved CO₂ from the ocean into clean fuels and useful industrial feedstock.

Yale scientists have discovered that changes in climate and water levels are reducing the ability of some ecosystems in the Everglades to store carbon

YCNCC was well-represented at the Enhanced Rock Weathering 2025 Conference at the University of Antwerp. 

YCNCC researchers found that mangrove forests in the Florida Everglades can recover rapidly from disturbance, underscoring the value of restoration…

YCNCC partnered with Yale Planetary Solutions to back 23 bold 2025 YPS Grant projects - plus a major effort to destroy harmful HFC refrigerants.

YCNCC research team wins Bezos Earth Fund award to push AI-powered carbon removal tech from concept to breakthrough in a Phase II sprint.

YCNCC SLT member and Yale Chemistry Prof Hailiang Wang won prestigious $2 million Brown Investigator Award from Caltech

The YCNCC 2025 Spring Symposium and Yale Climate Day poster session showcased an exceptional array of innovative research across multiple disciplines

YCNCC Spring Symposium and Yale Climate Day featured 15-minute talks from16 distinguished speakers from multiple disciplines, and institutions.

Shangshi Liu’s new Nature Communications study reveals how stacking restoration strategies can boost ecosystems and carbon storage.

Non-profit using Yale’s Noah Planavsky’ s research wins $50M grand prize in XPRIZE Carbon Removal International Competition.

Pete Raymond, Oastler Professor of Biogeochemistry at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE), has been appointed co-director for YCNCC

YCNCC Industry Fellow Sarah Castle will join a NACW panel on “Improved Science for the Nature-Based Carbon Markets of Today and Tomorrow”… 

Big congratulations to YCNCC Scientific Leadership Team member David Kwabi for receiving a 2025 Roberts Innovation Award to fund his ongoing research

YCNCC is pleased and excited to welcome our inaugural Spring 2025 Visiting Scholar, Dr. Zeke Hausfather, to Yale’s campus on March 27 - 28…

YCNCC Scientific Leadership Team Member Paulo Brando co-convened and co-led a workshop in Brazil’s Mata Atlantica region February 16-19, 2025…

Chemists have developed a new catalytic method to transform carbon dioxide into formate, a chemical compound with many uses from pesticides to…

A report recently released by the Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program (YASSP) a joint initiative of the Yale School of the Environment (YSE) and…

Yale chemist and YCNCC Scientific Leadership Team member, Nilay Hazari, along with his collaborators, has developed a new method for transforming carb

Matthew Eisaman, endowed YCNCC Professor in Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS), passed away on Friday, February 28th, after a difficult battle with….

Fantastic report from Remineralize the Earth and Dr. James Jerden on YCNCC’s watershed-scale enhanced weathering field trial…

Great video of Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture’s water-shed scale enhanced weathering field trial in Southside VA, featuring star turns from…

Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) Faculty Affiliate and Yale Professor of Chemistry Dr. Hailiang Wang has made a significant…

Julie Zimmerman, Yale’s Vice Provost for Planetary Solutions and a jointly appointed professor at Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science…

YCNCC is excited to announce Dr. David Kwabi as our fifth faculty hire.

A recent study co-authored by Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture Scientific Leadership Team member and Yale School of the Environment Professor…

At the AGU (American Geophysical Union) awards ceremony, Peter Raymond was honored as a 2024 Union Fellow! This prestigious recognition is awarded…

Interested in climate change mitigation? Wondering what enhanced rock weathering is? Want to insert some science into your weekly routine?

Yale School of the Environment’s Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI) led a productive and successful “Blue Carbon Ecosystems…

The Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program (YASSP) and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) conducted a successful workshop October 16-17 in The…

YCNCC-connected startup Ebb Carbon announced today that the company has signed a significant offtake purchase agreement with Microsoft for up to…

Dr. Liza Comita, co-director of the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture, has been recognized for her prominent contributions to research and…

Dr. Lea Winter, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering of the School of Engineering & Applied Science…

The event featured a series of 5-minute lightning talks presented by 26 researchers from across Yale

Meet Dr. Matthew Eisaman, Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences and a member of the Scientific Leadership Team at YCNCC in this FAS News..

The Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) is pleased to partner with the Yale Forest School, the Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program…

Incoming Earth & Planetary Sciences Assistant Professor Dr. Elizabeth Yankovsky will be joining the Scientific Leadership Team at YCNCC

The Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) is accepting applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

The mission of the Center is…

Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) Scientific Leadership Team member Eric Slessarev and YCNCC Faculty Affiliate and Yale School of the….

Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) Co-Director Liza Comita and Scientific Leadership Team member Paulo Brando attended the Tanguro…