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

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

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 ...

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 ...

BGS is leading a three-year project funded by The Crown Estate to develop a new suite of seabed geology datasets and reports, providing crucial information for offshore developers about the seabed ...

The BGS geological timechart provides colourful reference material for use in schools, colleges and at home, setting out the geological timescale and geochronological terms we use at BGS. You can ...

BGS has produced a suite of hydrogeological maps of Scotland. The suite comprises two layers: groundwater vulnerability and aquifer productivity (bedrock and superficial). Groundwater vulnerability is ...

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, ...

Shrink–swell in clay soils is a major geohazard in the UK and costs the economy over £400 million a year. This is predicted to rise to over £600 million by 2050, due to climate change-driven weather ...

The origin of the Kinnekulle tephra, a huge volcanic ash layer spread across Norway, Sweden, the Baltic region, Belarus and Poland, has long been a mystery but new evidence may have uncovered the ...

The British Geological Survey (BGS) has released a new shallow subsurface geological synthesis of the southern North Sea in the first formal review of this region since the 1990s. A wealth of new ...