Cited 23 June: Project Cosmos launch | Science ‘under attack’ at Bonn | Emissions inequality
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Welcome to Cited, your essential guide to new climate research. In the news SCIENCE ‘UNDER ATTACK’: Climate Home News reported that “dozens” of countries called out “coordinated attacks” aimed at “undermining the role of climate science” at UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, last week. According to the outlet, the countries said that UN decision-making […]
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Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited institutions
Analysis of Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database reveals the world’s leading “institutions” for climate research. There are more than 40,000 institutions in the Cosmos database, ranging from universities and research laboratories, through to policy institutes and governmental bodies. Carbon Brief has given each institution a “publication count”, by adding up the number of times that its […]
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Prof Detlef van Vuuren: The climate scientist most cited by the IPCC
Detlef van Vuuren is one of the world’s leading climate modellers and, as a result, a high-profile focus of his life’s work – the “RCP8.5” scenario – has recently been targeted as “wrong, wrong, wrong” by Donald Trump. Speaking to Carbon Brief at his office in the Hague, Van Vuuren cuts a serious, but relaxed figure – […]
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Prof Philippe Ciais: The world’s most highly cited climate scientist
Phillipe Ciais has spent almost four decades researching the planet’s carbon cycle – and the ways in which humans have been impacting its balance. Based at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE) on the outskirts of Paris, Ciais (pronounced “see-es”) has been listed as an author on more than 1,300 peer-reviewed studies. In […]
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Plug-and-play hydropower system trials at Glasgow wastewater works
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The PicoStream sits directly in a flowing channel and extracts energy from the moving water itself. It can be floated or lowered into position and connected with minimal infrastructure, says developer FFH. A novel hydropower technology is being trialled by Scottish Water at its Shieldhall Wastewater Treatment Works in Glasgow, to assess the possibilities it […]
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New chip could help tiny robots traverse complex environments
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A new chip developed by MIT researchers could help tiny, low-power UAVs avoid obstacles as they zip around tight corners inside an industrial HVAC system to check for gas leaks. The chip allows small autonomous robots and other battery-limited devices to construct detailed 3D maps of their environments in real-time using only about as much […]
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Mapped: Inside Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database of 1.8 million climate studies
This is the vast “cosmos” of academic literature and evidence that underpins humanity’s knowledge of climate change. Every “star” – all 1.8m of them – represents one of the studies inside Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database. The coloured “nebulae” and “galaxies” within this cosmos illustrate where clusters of studies share similar citations and, hence, areas of common […]
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Project Cosmos
Welcome to the Project Cosmos homepage. The project was launched by Carbon Brief in June 2026 following an 18-month research and development effort. The aim: to build the world’s largest database of climate change research. Containing more than 1.8 million unique publications linked by 40 million citation relationships, the Cosmos database represents the most complete […]
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Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited climate scientists
Carbon Brief’s Project Cosmos is the largest known database of climate change research, featuring more than 1.8m individual publications. Every publication has a list of authors – the experts who carried out fieldwork, analysed data and drafted the document itself. Hundreds of thousands of experts are listed as authors in these studies, books and reports. […]
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Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited climate publications
The most highly cited publications in Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database reveal the building blocks supporting so many elements of climate science. Every year, thousands of new scientific documents are published, from studies and reports to books and assessments. Carbon Brief’s Project Cosmos pulls together the “universe” of climate research, spanning 1.8m publications from almost a century of […]
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Introducing Project Cosmos: Carbon Brief’s ‘universe’ of climate science
Carbon Brief’s Project Cosmos is a major collaborative effort to build the world’s largest and most complete database of climate change research. The Cosmos database – which features more than 1.8m individual publications linked by 40m citation relationships – captures the vast body of human knowledge about climate change that has accumulated over more than […]
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Waste firm calls for ban as hundreds of thousands of BBQs go to landfill
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In 2022, several supermarkets vowed to remove disposable BBQs from sale. But, they continue to be sold by many retailers and cause fires across the UK, with hundreds of thousands going to landfill every year.1 Waste management firm BusinessWaste.co.uk is calling for a total ban in order to protect the environment and reduce waste, as […]
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Wastewater phosphate monitoring … it’s all about the sample!
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The new Sample Filtration Cabinet (image credit: Swan Analytical Instruments). Swan Analytical Instruments has launched a new Sample Filtration Cabinet which the group says ensures the reliable provision of representative samples to its continuous phosphate analysers. The climate-controlled cabinet houses all of the key instrumentation and employs innovative sampling technology to ensure reliable, regulatory compliant […]
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Seawater hydrogen technology validated in real-world portside trial
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The SeaStack hydrogen electrolyser operating in a mobile trailer during a seawater-to-hydrogen demonstration at Portland Harbour (image credit: Latent Drive). UK green hydrogen firm Latent Drive says it has successfully demonstrated its SeaStack® electrolyser, producing green hydrogen directly from untreated seawater under portside conditions for the first time. The demonstration took place at Manor Marine’s […]
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UK launches major effort to tackle aviation’s non-CO2 climate impacts
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UK launches major effort to tackle aviation’s overlooked climate impacts Aviation’s contribution to climate change has traditionally been measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted from aircraft engines. But growing scientific evidence suggests that a substantial share of the sector’s climate impact may come from non-CO₂ effects, including contrails, nitrogen oxide emissions and other atmospheric […]
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A better way to model the behavior of metal alloys
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Companies working at the frontier of aerospace, energy, and computing are constantly looking for new materials to improve performance. But in order to understand how those materials will actually behave once they’re inside rockets or on computer chips, companies first have to make the material and then test it. That’s because even the most powerful […]
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Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2026 UN climate conference
Two weeks of tense UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, have produced few tangible outcomes as diplomats faced “gridlock”. Negotiators failed to find agreement in numerous areas, such as scaling up global emissions cuts and funding for climate adaptation. In the closing plenary, many diplomats lamented weakened trust in the UN climate process, as it […]
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DeBriefed 19 June 2026: Bonn talks end in ‘gridlock’ | Energy’s ‘new era’ | Oceans in climate negotiations
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Bonn talks close ‘SIDE-STEPPING AND STALLING’: UN climate talks in Bonn have ended in “gridlock”, according to Climate Home News. The outlet reported on the failure to balance developing countries’ need for climate-adaptation finance with “richer nations’ […]