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BGS scientists join international expedition off the coast of New England

20/05/2025

Latest IODP research project investigates freshened water under the ocean floor.

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Wind turbines in England. © Eclipse Chasers, Pexels.
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New interactive map viewer reveals growing capacity and rare earth element content of UK wind farms

16/05/2025

BGS’s new tool highlights the development of wind energy installations over time, along with their magnet and rare earth content.

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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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The cliffs at Étretat, showing channelling in the Chalk and well-developed karstic dissolution pipes. BGS © UKRI 2025.
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Geology sans frontières

24/04/2025

Geology doesn’t stop at international borders, so BGS is working with neighbouring geological surveys and research institutes to solve common problems with the geology they share.

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Dr Tracy Shimmield appointed as Lyell Centre Director

08/01/2019

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Drillers pulling up core samples at the Glasgow observatory. BGS©UKRI
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The BGS submits planning application for UK Geoenergy Observatory in Cheshire

21/12/2018

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Cunnigar Loop sites for UK Geoenergy Observatory in Glasgow.
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Glasgow geothermal project heats up with first borehole

07/12/2018

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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.

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Fig. 1. An example of a development in the Tower Hamlets area at Canary Wharf. The dock is being modified in advance of construction. The development will require large quantities of aggregates; to fill the dock and in the manufacture of concrete.
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Humans overtake nature as the biggest contributors to landscape evolution

02/11/2018

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Glasgow gives warm welcome to geothermal heat research

28/08/2018

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Ince Marshes in north Cheshire. ©Peter Corcoran.
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BGS invites community to view plans for world’s best environmental health check

23/08/2018

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Fig 1: It is important that groundwater remains protected; there is a potential risk of groundwater being contaminated from leaks from oil and gas wells, through old infrastructure (mines and boreholes) and by transport through the rock mass from the source of the oil and gas.
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Assessing potential groundwater contamination in the pursuit of new energy sources

23/07/2018

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