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![Pale cliffs above a flat grassy area with ivy and trees growing across some of them. There are several, large and small caves in the cliffs.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/geograph-6702517-by-Sandy-Gerrard.jpg)
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Creswell Crags Museum collections offer insight into the past and future of wolves
Bones found at the site are helping scientists to understand the diet of wolves and how they differ over time.
![BGS staff sampling a chalk spring for microplastics in 2024. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/P1038363.webp)
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BGS to lead a new research project on microplastic occurrence in springs
BGS has been awarded a two-year research project to undertake the first assessment of microplastic occurrence in springs in the UK.
![A person wearing a green hat and a blue coat standing on ground covered in leaves in front of a deep hole.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_8741_Stream-Sink-Burnham-Beeches_SU9517_8519-1-960x640.jpg)
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New BGS karst report released for Hampshire and Wiltshire
The report details the evidence for karst processes in areas of soluble rocks that have not previously been considered karstic.
![S amll cave in a white chalk cliff that has bands of flint pebbles.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Cave.jpg)
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New research reveals fresh insights into the role of karst in the Chalk aquifer
New research has thrown fresh light on what scientists understand about the role of karst in the Chalk aquifer, which provides public water supplies to millions of people, agriculture and industry, and sustains vital habitats.
![geograph-2189737-by-Richard-Bird](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/geograph-2189737-by-Richard-Bird.jpg)
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Phosphorus in caves: a new methodological development being pioneered at Poole’s Cavern with the help of BGS
Alistair Morgan is exploring how phosphorous enters cave systems and if stalagmites could be used to unravel past temperatures.