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BGS strengthens scientific links with Icelandic partners through Research and Innovation Scotland initiative
06/08/2026
BGS researchers recently visited Iceland as part of a project developing international partnerships and identifying opportunities for future collaborative research.
New NERC-funded project empowers young people to engage with environmental science
23/07/2026
BGS is part of a new, collaborative project, funded through NERC’s ‘Opening up the environment’ programme, helping the environmental research community become more accessible.
Coastal retreat in the past: the legacy of truncated drumlins
07/08/2026
The UK coasts have been responding to changing sea levels for thousands of years, and some of the best evidence of those changes now lies hidden beneath the waves.
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Investigating climate and environmental change in eastern Australia
02/06/2017
Climate change in Australia could lead to environmental and economic impacts on water security, agriculture, coastal communities and infrastructure.
BGS wins impact award
02/06/2017
The GeoAnalytics and modelling (GAM) directorate have won Team of the Year at the PraxisUnico Impact Awards 2017!
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.