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22 results for "africa"
![Sophia and Job at BGS conducting specialist analysis of Pu in soils.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Job_Sophia_Lab_T-Barlow_thumbnail.jpg)
Harnessing global collaboration: UK/Kenya partnership in soil erosion research
Collaboration between scientists is vital in today's interconnected world to further scientific progress. In environmental research, issues such as soil erosion demand collaboration on an international scale.
![Rebecca Mumpansha, a GSD librarian, with the sales stock of geological maps. © Rachel Talbot.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/P1000254-960x645.webp)
Unlocking key mineral archives at the Zambian Geological Survey Department
Rachel Talbot recounts a recent visit by BGS Records staff to the Zambian Geological Survey Department, to assist in critical mineral data management.
![Sophia Dowell, PhD student at BGS, conducting her research in Kenya. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/sophia-dowell.webp)
The optimisation of plutonium separation
BGS research leads to advancements in the detection of plutonium and ultimately the determination of soil erosion rates in tropical soils.
![A recently upgraded community groundwater drinking-water point equipped with a solar pump and non-functioning, insituonline chlorination system. Dan Lapworth, BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/upgraded-community-groundwater-drinking-water-point.jpg)
Harare’s clean drinking water challenge
Researchers from BGS and partners in Zimbabwe report on the urban water supply challenge in the capital city, Harare.
![© Samuel Kouakou – Téhini, Côte d’Ivoire](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2-KOUAKOU-GW-Photo-Competition_web_thumb.jpg)
A tale of two groundwaters
Why the United Nations 2023 Water Conference needs to know more about groundwater.
![Two white men are standing in front of a low, sandy cliff](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/DSCN1616.jpg)
Zambia: the copper mining powerhouse looking towards a safer, low-carbon future
BGS scientists Clive Mitchell (industrial minerals geologist) and Elliott Hamilton (environmental chemist) report on their recent visit to the Copperbelt Province in Zambia.
![Projected annual use of stored groundwater in Africa](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Projected_annual_use_groundwater.jpg)
![Pouring drinking water from a well in Mozambique](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/WWD_PPL_Mario_Macilau.jpg)
BGS and WaterAid publish new research on groundwater resilience
Most African countries have enough groundwater reserves to face at least five years of drought, new research reveals