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Studying multi-hazards from space

25/07/2024

A new European Space Agency-funded project will study the effect earthquakes have on occurrences of other natural hazards in the long-term.

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Scottish river in low flow. © Paul Glendell
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Warnings for Scottish farmers and distillers as new data indicates climate change may double number of droughts

23/07/2024

The agricultural and distilling sectors could face significant challenges after research finds the number of droughts in Scotland may double in the next 25 years.

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BGS Open Day 2024

Event on 08/06/2024

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The heat beneath our feet: BGS field visit to Tuscan geothermal systems

05/07/2024

BGS visits the active and fossilised geothermal systems of southern Tuscany, Italy.

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BGS’s Emrys Phillips examining the Stone of Scone at Edinburgh Castle in 1998. BGS © UKRI.
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The Stone of Destiny

03/05/2023

The origins of the Stone of Scone: where it came from, why BGS has crumbs of it in its collections and the little-known fact that it is upside down.

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BGS' Edd Lewis, presenting BGS' new API release at the ASGS Geotech conference, April 2023. Photo: Ricky Terrington BGS
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Improvements to borehole delivery

25/04/2023

BGS releases improvements to its borehole layer on the GeoIndex, which makes access faster and improves quality.

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A tropical beach with white sand and two palm trees on the right. People are sunbathing and swimming in the sea. There is a distant, lushly vegetated hill with a rock arch in the distance.
BGS blogs
Island groundwater management in the Philippines: part one — Boracay

19/04/2023

BGS’s Andy Barkwith and Andy McKenzie travelled to the Philippines to undertake collaborative research and outreach with Filipino partners for a national hydrological modelling project. In this first blog, they discuss the first week of work on small islands.

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Report identifies areas of the UK prospective for critical raw materials

17/04/2023

Areas from the Highlands to south-west England have the right geology to be prospective for several critical raw materials such as lithium and graphite, according to a new report.

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World Mineral Production 2017 to 2021. BGS © UKRI.
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World Mineral Production 2017 to 2021 is now available

14/04/2023

The latest edition of World Mineral Production has been released.

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How does public water use influence the amount of phosphorus in the environment?

11/04/2023

New research looks at how phosphorus accumulates in public water systems in the USA.

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Six ‘eggs’-tremely tenuous links between geology and Easter

06/04/2023

Think that geology and Easter don’t have anything in common? You might be surprised, as this blog by BGS’s Kirstin Lemon highlights.

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Four-hundred-year-old bear paw bone (metapodial) showing where it has been sampled for isotopes and ancient DNA analysis. BGS © UKRI.
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Exploring animal diets in Shakespeare’s London

31/03/2023

The ‘Box office bears’ project aims to understand more about the bears that were once a common sight in England. Prof Hannah O’Regan and Dr Lizzie Wright from the University of Nottingham explain what the project entails.

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