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Perth and Kinross tops the UK’s earthquake activity charts for 2025
29/12/2025
Seismologists at the British Geological Survey have published data on the number of seismic events over the past 12 months with over 300 earthquakes recorded.
BGS awarded funding to support Malaysia’s climate resilience plan
17/12/2025
The project, funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, will focus on minimising economic and social impacts from rainfall-induced landslides.
Hole-y c*@p! How bat excrement is sculpting Borneo’s hidden caves
23/12/2025
BGS researchers have delved into Borneo’s underworld to learn more about how guano deposited by bats and cave-dwelling birds is shaping the subsurface.
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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.
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.
GeoSciML data standard becomes official
15/03/2017
The OGC GeoSciML Standard defines a model and the encoding for geological features commonly described and portrayed in geological maps, cross sections, geological reports and databases.
