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UKRI announce new Chair of the BGS Board
01/05/2025
Prof Paul Monks CB will step into the role later this year.

Latest mineral production statistics for 2019 to 2023 released
28/04/2025
More than 70 mineral commodities have been captured in the newly published volume of World Mineral Production.

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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Courteenhall Bridge Exposure
08/09/2017
Bedrock exposed between mileage 60.0050 and 60.1630 on the southwest side of Roade cutting south of Courteenhall bridge). The outcrop is loose and unstable and located in the upper part of the slope.

Heavy metal and bacterial contamination of fish
08/09/2017
During summer 2016 Laura Hubbard undertook a project looking at heavy metal and bacterial contamination of fish sold in the UK.

Salt-marsh sampling in Essex
08/09/2017
Helen Brooks, a PhD student from the University of Cambridge, is conducting research that will improve models that simulate future marsh evolution, particularly in a changing climate.

Carbon capture and sequestration in peat in response to positive and negative feedbacks
08/09/2017
Harnessing the carbon-storage capacity of peatlands by investigating a series of organic supplements that can release phenolic compounds and test whether these can suppress greenhouse gas release.

An exciting new development in soil phosphate oxygen isotope analysis
03/06/2017
Phosphorus is a key nutrient for all life, critical for the development of cells and the functioning of DNA and RNA.

Deploying and servicing a seismic network in Central Italy
02/06/2017
BGS seismologists are using the seismicity that is hitting Central Italy to analyse the triggering and evolution of an earthquake sequence.

Environmental contamination from mine tailings in Africa
02/06/2017
BGS scientists helped with experimental trials to investigate the influence of soil management strategies, on metal uptake of soils.