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The aurora over West Linton on the Scottish Borders. Credit: Jez Everest
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UK braced for what could be the largest solar storm in over two decades

12/11/2025

Intense geomagnetic activity could disrupt technology such as communication systems, global positioning systems and satellite orbits.

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Aerial view of the UK Geoenergy Observatory in Cheshire. BGS © UKRI.
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First distributed acoustic sensing survey completed at UK Geoenergy Observatory

12/11/2025

New research at the Cheshire Observatory has shown the potential for mapping thermal changes in the subsurface using sound waves.

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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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Fuego volcano with frequent activity that we could observe. This long exposure image shows how material is deposited on the high flanks of the volcano. BGS © UKRI.
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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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A hydrocarbon drilling platform rises above the surface of the sea. There are offshore wind turbines in the background.
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Major research project will support UK’s energy transition

27/06/2022

BGS will lead the new research project 'Managing the Environmental Sustainability of the Offshore Energy Transition'.

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Darjeeling Hills, India
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Developing regional-scale landslide forecasting in hazard-prone regions of India

23/06/2022

BGS has been involved in co-developing a prototype regional-scale landslide forecasting system in two hazard-prone districts of India.

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Mineral section.
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Working at BGS as a postgraduate intern

15/06/2022

Katie Williams, an environmental geochemistry masters student, shares her experience following a work placement in the Stable Isotope Facility.

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Stalked Ascidean - image by Atlantic Productions
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Scientists reveal extraordinary ecosystems in the deepest part of the Indian Ocean

08/06/2022

New technology has enabled marine scientists to capture some of the world’s first images of previously unexplored habitats in the deepest point of the Indian Ocean.

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An atlantic salmon attempting to jump up a waterfall in the Scottish Highlands, on a journey to spawning grounds.
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Climate change and human exploitation linked to historic decline in Atlantic salmon

08/06/2022

New research reveals that both a change in climate and human exploitation played a role in a decline in North Atlantic salmon populations.

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Nine BGS staff members standing and crouching around the new bug palace, which is made out of wooden pallets and logs, sticks, grass, stones and bricks in a pile.
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Staff sustainability practices around BGS

01/06/2022

BGS recently made time for employees at our sites around the UK to spend a few hours on projects focusing on increasing sustainability, both in their offices and in the local area.

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Two white women are looking at a small cherry tree sapling held up by the woman on the left
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Positively blooming: Japanese flowering cherry trees planted at BGS Keyworth to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee

31/05/2022

The walkway of eight trees has been planted in the grounds of BGS headquarters in Keyworth to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's 70 years on the throne.

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BGS to join worldwide geoscience community at EGU General Assembly 2022

20/05/2022

The EGU General Assembly 2022 brings together geoscientists from all over the world for one meeting from 23 to 27 May.

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