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Funding awarded to UK/Canadian critical mineral research projects
08/07/2025
BGS is part of a groundbreaking science partnership aiming to improve critical minerals mining and supply chains.
Release of over 500 Scottish abandoned-mine plans
24/06/2025
The historical plans cover non-coal mines that were abandoned pre-1980 and are available through BGS's plans viewer.
AI and Earth observation: BGS visits the European Space Agency
02/07/2025
The newest artificial intelligence for earth science: how ESA and NASA are using AI to understand our planet.
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Evidence Week 2021
15/12/2021
Representatives from BGS took part in Evidence Week 2021 to talk to parliamentarians about unlocking the potential of geothermal energy in the UK.
Accessing open source BGS software through GitHub
15/12/2021
BGS is increasingly utilising GitHub to make its software available as open source and encourage collaboration with partners and the wider community.
Secure your digital datasets — by letting a data centre look after them!
10/12/2021
Mark Fellgett discusses why data centres should be the de facto option for the storage of geoscience data.
Geochemical predictive mapping in western Kenya
05/12/2021
To mark World Soil Day, Olivier Humphrey highlights the soil-related activities of the BGS Inorganic Geochemistry Facility and its partners in western Kenya.
Evaluating contamination in sediment, waters and fish from two contrasting catchments in England
02/12/2021
Calum Ramage's PhD project sets out to assess the impacts of pesticides and trace metals on British rivers.
New climate change art and science exhibition opens at the National Mining Museum Scotland
29/11/2021
The exhibition will take viewers on a journey through a series of geoscience themes, showcasing how climate change affects our urban and natural environment.
BGS to deliver three-year groundwater flood forecasting service to support emergency response to flooding
29/11/2021
BGS is delivering a national-scale early warning system for groundwater flooding, alongside the Environment Agency and the Met Office.
A new suite of AGS file utilities and public API
24/11/2021
BGS has released an online AGS file utilities tool validator.