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 ...

The first practical electric telegraph networks were deployed during the 1840s and, as solar activity increased during the following years, Victorian telegraph operators began to experience ...

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 BGS Superficial Deposit Thickness Model (SDTM) dataset presents the modelled regional variation in thickness of superficial and unconsolidated deposits across Great Britain. These include ...

Natural hydrogen gas is generated through a range of geochemical and biochemical reactions within rock formations. It has recently gained significant attention as a potential clean energy source ...

The Giant’s Causeway, located in Country Antrim, Northern Ireland, is one of the UK’s most instantly recognisable natural landmarks. The distinctive columnar landscape was formed during intense ...

Shrink–swell ground movement, typically reported as subsidence, is one of the most damaging geohazards in the UK today. Many soils contain clay minerals that absorb water and swell when they get wet, ...

Since 1913, BGS and its predecessor organisations have complied annual production and trade statistics on a wide range of mineral commodities. In the latest volume, World Mineral Production 2020–2024, ...

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.

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 ...

Millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa rely on hand-pumped boreholes (HPBs) for their water supply, but they are often unreliable, with frequent breakdowns and long repair times. Although there have ...