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BGS-led paper scoops prestigious award
16/09/2025
New research providing earlier warnings of landslides has been awarded the British Geotechnical Association medal.

Why do we store geological core?
11/09/2025
With space at a premium and the advance of new digitisation techniques, why does retaining over 600 km of physical specimens remain of national importance?

PhD adventures in the Philippines: coring around Lake Bulusan
05/09/2025
Chris Bengt recounts his two-week field trip to Bulusan Volcano Natural Park in the Philippines to collect lake sediment cores, fresh soil and water samples.
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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.

British Science Week
Event from 08/03/2021 to 12/03/2021
BGS took part in British Science Week, a national celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths.

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.

The Prees Borehole and the JET Project
24/02/2021
A recent borehole in Shropshire is unearthing new information about the chronology and environments of the Early Jurassic.

BGS to support novel scientific ocean drilling expedition to explore Arctic Ocean palaeoceanography and climate
18/02/2021
BGS is pleased to be part of a joint IODP expedition focused on the Arctic Ocean, a key location in global climate change.

Resolving the unresolved: new insights into soil chemical reactions using microdialysis
15/02/2021
New techniques in soil sampling could be the key to alleviating hidden hunger.

We made a Minecraft volcano!
15/02/2021
Find out how a friend of BGS has been using Minecraft to create educational geological models during lockdown.