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One year on: reflections on the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption
18/01/2023
The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcano in January 2022 has highlighted a global unpreparedness for the impacts from large-scale global events.

MYRIAD-EU: shifting the paradigm in disaster risk management
17/01/2023
How changing our approach to disaster risk reduction practices can create a more resilient future.

Property subsidence assessment: helping to mitigate shrink–swell hazard risk
25/01/2023
The BGS Property Subsidence Assessment dataset provides insurers and homeowners with tools to better understand shrink–swell and the risk it poses to homes and businesses.
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Tracking nitrate and ammonium in the environment
20/10/2022
Newly developed methodologies are improving our understanding of nitrogen cycling.

The question of quality: how data science is tackling threats to our groundwater
14/10/2022
An improved understanding of groundwater quality threats could help better manage groundwater resources and mitigate threats to global water supplies.

Disaster risk reduction through geoscience
13/10/2022
Exploring hazard research at BGS helps us to understand hazard risks and reduce vulnerability to disasters across the globe.

My role as a stable isotope research assistant
11/10/2022
Dr Harvey Pickard gives us an insight into his new role analysing stable isotopes and getting to grips with some of the laboratory equipment at BGS.

New seabed maps offer a window into the distant past
10/10/2022
BGS has begun publishing a new series of high-resolution offshore geological maps showing the distribution of bedrock and sediments that make up the seabed around our coasts.

New geological map of offshore Anglesey released
10/10/2022
BGS has released a new fine-scale digital map featuring the seabed geology of offshore Anglesey (Ynys Môn).

Project findings provide essential insight into the last British–Irish ice sheet
29/09/2022
Understanding more about the north-west European continental shelf and improving forecasting for the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.