BGS has secured Bronze accreditation under the Advance HE Race Equality Charter framework, recognising its commitment to ...

BGS has been trialling a novel bioaccessibility tracing technique to ascertain if it offers more analytical precision over ...

This study started back in 2016, joining research led by Dr Diana Menya at Moi University (CNN article) and Dr Valerie McCormack from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), who ...

During the summer of 2022 concern for water resources has focused on heatwaves and the lack of rainfall. These factors combine to cause low flows in rivers, low stocks in reservoirs and increased ...

‘True north’ is the direction to the geographic north pole; ‘grid north’ is where the vertical blue lines shown on Ordnance Survey (OS) maps converge, and ‘magnetic north’ is the direction that a ...

BGS has secured Bronze accreditation under the Advance HE Race Equality Charter framework, recognising its commitment to identifying and addressing race equality issues in the geosciences. Two of ...

Our most detailed dataset is provided at 1:10,000 scale. This digital dataset is based on BGS’s highest resolution survey mapping and contains a small proportion of 1:25 000 scale data in some upland ...

Hosting BGS’s collections of borehole cores, cuttings, samples, specimens, and related subsurface information from the UK landmass and continental shelf. We have extensive collections of books, maps, ...

BGS, in collaboration with Arup, was commissioned by the North East Local Enterprise Partnership to develop a White Paper entitled ‘The case for deep geothermal energy — unlocking investment at scale ...

Geologists have found the fossil of the earliest known animal predator. The 560-million-year-old specimen is the first of its kind, but it is related to the group that includes corals, jellyfish and ...

Groundwater is a critical water source in the UK. Across England it provides around a third of the overall public water supply and as much as 100 per cent in some communities in south-east England and ...

The UK is an important producer of a range of minerals that are consumed in many sectors of the economy. Some 172.3 million tonnes of minerals were extracted from the UK landmass for sale in 2024.