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January 21, 2026
From farms to oceans: How Microsoft is working to scale carbon dioxide removal
There is widespread recognition that efforts to meet global climate targets cannot be met by curbing new carbon dioxide emissions alone and will also require removing carbon from the atmosphere at scale. Today, a wide range of advanced carbon dioxide removal projects are underway – and accelerating.

December 3, 2025
Lithos Carbon Delivers 5,160 Registry-Certified Tons of Carbon Removal in World’s Largest Enhanced Rock Weathering Issuance to Date
Lithos Carbon, the leader in permanent carbon capture through enhanced rock weathering, today announced the successful issuance of 5,160 registry-certified tons of carbon dioxide removal. This milestone represents the largest enhanced rock weathering delivery to date, marking a significant advancement in the scaling of this critical carbon removal solution.

March 5, 2025
Lithos Selects Puro.earth To Certify Its Enhanced Rock Weathering Carbon Removal Credits
Puro.earth, the world's leading carbon crediting platform for engineered carbon removal, has announced that Lithos Carbon, a pioneer in Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) technology, has selected Puro.earth to certify its carbon removal credits under the globally recognized Puro Standard for engineered carbon dioxide removal (CDR).

May 8, 2024
Lithos Carbon selected as a Top 20 Finalist in the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Competition
XPRIZE has announced the 20 finalist teams selected to compete in the last stage of XPRIZE Carbon Removal. Removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from our planet’s atmosphere is one of the most crucial, yet difficult, challenges humanity has ever faced. These finalist teams are paving the way forward to achieve carbon dioxide removal (CDR) at a gigatonne scale by 2050. XPRIZE chose these finalists from over 1,300 teams from 88 countries for the transformative power of their solutions across the competition’s four tracks: air, ocean, land, and rocks.

February 23, 2024
Lithos Carbon Announces 3,000 Ton Carbon Removal Purchase
Two companies are accelerating carbon dioxide removal (CDR) purchases with a recent transaction announcement. Lithos Carbon – an agricultural carbon removal company developing an enhanced rock weathering solution and Carbonx Climate – a carbon credits procurement and management partner, assisting clients in achieving their net zero goals, announced a purchase of 3,000 tons of carbon removal on behalf of Carbonx’ partners.

January 23, 2024
Huge amounts of rock dust are being spread across farms to capture CO2
Companies around the world are spreading crushed rocks on farms to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a process called enhanced weathering, but the hard part is measuring how much is stored.

January 4, 2024
How Weathered Rocks Can Lessen Climate Change
Rocks can pull carbon out of the air more inexpensively than machines. But can the process be scaled?

December 16, 2023
A Long-Shot Climate Bet Suddenly Turns Hot
One carbon removal method uses giant fan-like devices to pull carbon from the air.

December 12, 2023
10 climate tech innovations that give us hope for 2024
From ships powered by food waste to jet fuel made from CO2, here’s the climate tech we’re most excited about.

December 10, 2023
Frontier buyers sign world’s first enhanced weathering offtake agreements with Lithos Carbon
Frontier buyers will pay Lithos $57.1 million to remove 154,240 tons of CO₂ between 2024 and 2028.

December 8, 2023
Frontier Makes Largest Carbon Removal Purchase From Lithos Carbon
Frontier, an advance market commitment to speed up carbo removal, has just made its largest carbon removal purchase from Lithos Carbon. The initiative has agreed to pay Lithos Carbon, a CO2 removal company specializing in enhanced rock weathering, a total of $57.1 million to remove 154,240 tons of carbon dioxide.

December 7, 2023
Can Rock Dust Soak Up Carbon Emissions? A Giant Experiment Is Set to Find Out
The idea of sprinkling rock dust on farmland to soak up atmospheric carbon will be tested at large scale, thanks to a $57 million purchase from corporations including Stripe and Alphabet.

December 7, 2023
Why JPMorgan, H&M and others will pay $57.1 million to spread crushed rock on farmland
The Frontier Fund, a corporate buyers’ group including Alphabet, H&M, JPMorgan, Shopify and Stripe, this week announced a $57.1 million contract with startup Lithos Carbon, which is developing a method for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by spreading crushed rock on soil.

December 7, 2023
Frontier makes world's largest rock weathering purchase
The startup spun out of academic research at Yale less than two years ago. Now it’s working with more than 80 farms in nine states. And in a new deal, buyers including Stripe, Alphabet, and Shopify have committed to pay the startup $57.1 million to remove 154,000 tons of CO2 over the next four years.

December 7, 2023
Can rocks absorb enough CO2 to fight climate change? These companies think so
Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, and a slew of other companies plan to spend more than $57 million cumulatively to fight climate change by spreading crushed rock over farmland.