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Extended seabed geology map of the Bristol Channel published
07/10/2025
BGS has released significantly extended high-resolution maps that will support offshore green-energy initiatives in the area.
Dr Angela Lamb appointed as honorary professor by the University of Nottingham
02/10/2025
Dr Lamb will take up the position of honorary professor of environmental geochemistry, with a focus on collaborative research.
Fieldwork on Volcán de Fuego
13/10/2025
Understanding how one of the world’s most active volcanoes builds up material, and how they collapse to feed hot flows
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Virtual fieldwork during a global pandemic
03/03/2021
Virtual field reconnaissance can help maintain research momentum during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Cardiff Urban Geo Observatory: ‘a city-scale observatory for city-scale challenges’
02/03/2021
Heat recovery and storage in the urban subsurface could offer part of the solution to decarbonise energy supplies.
Delivering geoenergy research infrastructure in Glasgow
24/02/2021
Data from the Glasgow Observatory will help us to understand coal-mine-water heat and sustainable ways of heating our cities.
Safe storage of hydrogen in porous rocks: the challenges and knowledge gaps
12/02/2021
Increasing the amount of renewable energy that generates clean electricity will require a transition from natural gas to hydrogen and to store heat/cool in rocks.
Cobalt resources in Europe and the potential for new discoveries
26/01/2021
There is considerable interest in Europe in understanding the availability of cobalt from indigenous resources to help the transition to a low-carbon economy.
BGS PRIME: an early warning system for slope failure
13/01/2021
Dam and slope failures can lead to the wide-scale destruction of property and, in some cases, catastrophic loss of life.
Real-time monitoring of faecally contaminated drinking water
04/12/2020
Tryptophan-like fluorescence (TLF) represents an approach to instantaneously assess microbial risks in drinking water.
Geochemistry and ‘sea elephants’
02/11/2018
'Sea elephants' are very tiny swimming snails that are called elephants because they have a type of trunk.