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Funding secured to help mitigate ground risk in UK construction sector

05/02/2026

The BGS Common Ground project has been awarded new funding to help unlock the value of ground investigation data.

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After-school kids’ clubs

Event from 25/02/2026 to 25/03/2026

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Primary science teacher CPD sessions

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Hole-y c*@p! How bat excrement is sculpting Borneo’s hidden caves

23/12/2025

BGS researchers have delved into Borneo’s underworld to learn more about how guano deposited by bats and cave-dwelling birds is shaping the subsurface.

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IGRF-13 map of declination angle (in degrees east or west of true north) for 2020. © UKRI
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BGS leads update to maps of the Earth’s magnetic field

04/04/2024

The International Geomagnetic Reference Field, used for navigation on mobile phones and in space, is updated every five years.

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River Clyde, Glasgow. © Glasgow Life, Paul Watt Photography
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UK bidding to host the International Geological Congress 2028

18/03/2024

BGS has partnered with the Geological Society of London and the Scottish Geology Trust to develop a bid to host the 38th International Geological Congress in Glasgow in 2028.

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Breaking ground ceremony. L to R: Sami Massum (BGS), David Boon (BGS), Councillor Rob Inglis, Michelle Bentham, (BGS), Mark Thorpe (Pick Everard), Ross Goodband (Pick Everard), Ruth Edwards MP, Daniel Crow (BGS), Gershwyn Soanes (BGS), Andrew McConnochie (BGS), Mike Potter (NERC), James Howell (NERC) and Edward Leddy-Owen. BGS © UKRI.
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Local MP helps BGS launch a ‘living laboratory’  

05/03/2024

BGS is implementing a low-carbon heating system to help meet its net zero targets and provide data to the public.

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IODP Expedition 389 science party members, including BGS's Margaret Stewart (second from right), discussing cores. Marley Parker @ ECORD_IODP.
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Scientists produce first record of environmental data off coast of Hawai’i

01/03/2024

An international team of researchers, including BGS geoscientists, have succeeded in acquiring a continuous record of environmental data using fossilised coral from Hawai’i.

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New BGS Board member

01/03/2024

New non-executive director appointed to the BGS Board.

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Debris flow susceptibility model GlenCoe. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown Copyright and database rights 2022.
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BGS data product licence fees to rise

01/03/2024

New direct licence fees to be introduced from 1 April 2024.

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Margarita Segou. BGS © UKRI.
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BGS seismologist named editor-in-chief of Geophysical Journal International

29/02/2024

Margarita Segou has been appointed as the editor-in-chief of one of the world’s leading, peer-reviewed research journals in solid-Earth geophysics.

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Flags of countries in front of the United Nations office at Geneva. © Xabi Oregi, Pexels.
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BGS to help deliver International Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Resource Management

27/02/2024

BGS has been announced as part of a consortium approved by the UN to deliver its International Centres of Excellence on Sustainable Resource Management.

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