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UKRI announce new Chair of the BGS Board

01/05/2025

Prof Paul Monks CB will step into the role later this year.

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World Mineral Production 2019 to 2023. BGS © UKRI.
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Latest mineral production statistics for 2019 to 2023 released

28/04/2025

More than 70 mineral commodities have been captured in the newly published volume of World Mineral Production.

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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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The cliffs at Étretat, showing channelling in the Chalk and well-developed karstic dissolution pipes. BGS © UKRI 2025.
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Geology sans frontières

24/04/2025

Geology doesn’t stop at international borders, so BGS is working with neighbouring geological surveys and research institutes to solve common problems with the geology they share.

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New tsunami risk identified in Indonesia

30/04/2020

Scientists have identified a potential new tsunami risk in Indonesia by mapping below the seabed of the Makassar Strait.

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Drops of water falling into a container
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Climate change and urbanisation set to threaten quality of drinking water

16/04/2020

Much of the world’s population faces a threat to the quality and availability of their drinking water.

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Scientists report drop in Earth’s movement amid coronavirus lockdown

09/04/2020

A study in Brussels reported a drop in ambient seismic noise after the coronavirus lockdown started.

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The map gives an indication of the landslides currently reported and entered in the National Landslide Database following Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis to date.
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Landslides triggered by Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis in the UK

21/02/2020

On Sunday 9 February 2020, Storm Ciara hit the UK with very high winds and intense rainfall causing widespread disruption and flooding.

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