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Aerial view of Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh. © Bardhok Ndoji / iStockPhoto
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Oasis revealed as Scottish capital’s most ‘seismic’ concert

07/08/2025

20 years of evidence from earthquake monitoring proves the Britpop legends are the most ‘ground shaking’ musical act to perform at Murrayfield Stadium – with the chance to secure their position at the top of the charts this weekend.

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ECORD IODP3 Expedition 501 science team on board Liftboat Robert. Source: ECORD IODP
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IODP³-NSF Expedition 501 – Successful offshore operations launches onshore phase

06/08/2025

For the first time scientists have managed to take water and sediment samples from beneath the ocean on the New England Shelf with the intention of understanding this offshore aquifer system.

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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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Indian delegates and BGS staff outside BGS’s headquarters in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire. BGS © UKRI.
BGS blogs

BGS hosts India for ‘deep dive’ on carbon capture and storage

30/07/2025

Some of India’s top scientists visited BGS to explore the UK’s carbon dioxide storage research potential.

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Core Store solar project supports BGS net zero targets

02/07/2021

A large new solar panel array on the roof of the BGS Core Store is expected to result in a significant reduction in our carbon footprint.

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Sample map view of earthquakes recorded during hydraulic fracturing at the Preston New Road unconventional shale gas site. BGS © UKRI
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Scientists test a new model to understand and forecast seismicity induced by hydraulic fracturing operations

02/07/2021

Encouraging new research could bring scientists a step closer to being able to forecast earthquakes induced by human activity.

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BGS Podcast - Critical Raw Materials
BGS Podcasts
Critical raw materials podcast

01/07/2021

In this episode we discuss critical raw materials and the crucial role they will play as we move to a low-to-zero carbon economy

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Research highlight
Unlocking the deep geothermal energy potential of the Carboniferous Limestone Supergroup

28/06/2021

How understanding the subsurface beneath our towns and cities may allow us to access geothermal energy for heating homes and powering the UK.

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People on the steps at Regent's Canal, Granary Square, King's Cross, London. Source: VVShots/iStock 2020.
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BGS collaborates on new £1 million EPSRC-funded digital research project to help make urban growth more sustainable

28/06/2021

Novel research to develop a digital service for future water management and support efforts to make urban growth more sustainable.

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A view of the Chew Bahir lake in southern Ethiopia showing a current dry period. Photo by Julian Ruddock.
BGS blogs
Climate change and human migration out of Africa

23/06/2021

An international team of scientists have shown how climate change could have enabled the migration of Homo sapiens around 60 000 years ago.

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Volcan_Nyiragongo. Dgmuham, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Spaceborne data: an expanding role in disaster response

23/06/2021

Alessandro Novellino explains the importance of Earth observation to help facilitate successful emergency responses after natural hazard occurrences.

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BGS news
BGS Digital data review 2021–22

18/06/2021

BGS has undertaken a comprehensive understanding of the data ecosystem in which we operate, providing a detailed assessment of our current operating models and the options for our target operating model over the next 10 years.

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