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Kamchatka earthquake highlights the advances in tsunami early warning systems

31/07/2025

The response to the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia has emphasised how far scientific understanding of tsunamis has come over the last two decades, and the improved mitigation measures that are now in place.

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New journal article reveals snapshot of forever chemicals in shallow English soils

31/07/2025

Data on the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance concentrations in English soils has been released.

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Fieldwork setting up the Abergavenny geomagnetic repeat station BGS © UKRI.
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NERC Tech Forum 2025

Event on 03/06/2025

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Indian delegates and BGS staff outside BGS’s headquarters in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire. BGS © UKRI.
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BGS hosts India for ‘deep dive’ on carbon capture and storage

30/07/2025

Some of India’s top scientists visited BGS to explore the UK’s carbon dioxide storage research potential.

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BGS maps out priorities with five-year strategy

11/05/2023

BGS publishes its new strategy for 2023 to 2028, 'Understanding our Earth'.

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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.
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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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The coast on the surface of the river is covered with a pellicle of blue-green algae
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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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