Mati Carbon Wins $50M Grand Prize at XPRIZE Carbon Removal Competition
On Earth Day (April 23, 2025), the XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition announced that Mati Carbon took home the $50 million grand prize for its enhanced rock weathering program.
Huplaso Remineralizes Soils across Canada, USA, and the World
Healthy soil is the foundation of healthy agriculture. The presence of essential minerals plays a crucial role in maintaining soil fertility.
Funding the “Missing Middle” – How to Scale Up Climate Solutions
Map of Milkywire Climate Transformation Fund projects
Lithos Carbon founders (from left) Mary Yap, Dr. Chris Reinhard, and Dr. Noah Planavsky (click to enlarge)
The term “missing middle” refers to the funding gap between early-stage innovation and large-scale commercial deployment. While the missing middle concept has become a mainstay in climate conversations – appearing in investment panels, policy discussions, and startup pitch decks – the real-world implications, especially for emerging carbon removal technologies like enhanced rock weathering (ERW), ...
Rock Dust And Ocean Chemistry: Exploring Carbon Removal’s Potential and Perils
Rock dust applied in marine environments could become a meaningful addition to a portfolio of carbon dioxide removal techniques that collectively can help to mitigate climate change, says marine biogeochemist Lennart Bach.
From Kashmir to Chicago: Geological Survey of India’s Mir Takes ERW Vision Global
Senior geologist at the Geological Survey of India, Dr. Ishfaq Mir’s career has evolved from reconstructing past climates to addressing soil degradation and malnutrition caused by excessive pesticide use and synthetic fertilizers across India.
Call for Submissions: Journal Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems requests articles for upcoming special issue
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems has recently announced that it is accepting submissions for an upcoming special issue of the journal dedicated to recent advances on enhanced rock weathering (ERW) as a land-based CO2 removal method in agroecosystems.
Soil Remineralization, Climate Resilience, and Environmental Geochemistry: Insights from the 2024 Goldschmidt Conference
The 2024 Goldschmidt Conference took place from August 18-23 in Chicago, Illinois, and covered a broad range of topics, including innovative solutions to improving soil health, food security, and climate resilience.
Milkywire’s Climate Transformation Fund Goes Above and Beyond for Enhanced Weathering
The perennial question surrounding carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is one of funding. Until recently, this had been especially true of enhanced rock weathering (ERW), where unanswered questions surrounding efficacy and scalability stymied all but the most concerted efforts to fund ERW initiatives. Now, despite the field’s relative immaturity, there has been a windfall in investment opportunities for ERW projects and companies. In May 2024, Milkywire selected 13 projects to support, including Flux and Mati Carbon, through their Climate Transformation Fund.
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$100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal Finalists Include Enhanced Rock Weathering Teams
“The climate math is becoming clear that we will need gigaton-scale carbon removal in the coming decades to avoid the worst effects of climate change. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates the need at approximately 10 gigatonnes of net CO2 removal per year by the year 2050 in order to keep global temperature rise under 1.5 or 2C. As governments, companies, investors, and entrepreneurs make plans to meet this challenge, it is clear that we will need a range of carbon removal solutions to be proven through demonstration and deployment to complement ...
Soilicious’s Arianne Neele Nominated for World Food Prize Pioneer Award
Arianne Neele, the Co-Founder of Soilicious and a fourth generation agricultural expert, was nominated for the Top Agri-food Pioneer Award.
