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20 results for "pollution"
![BGS staff sampling a chalk spring for microplastics in 2024. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/P1038363.webp)
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.
![Gold mining activities (milled ore washing and sluicing) and community drinking water downslope of ASGM activities. © Maureene Auma Ondayo.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/gold-mining-activities-sluicing-p1038343-960x645.webp)
Linking geochemistry and health in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Kakamega-Vihiga gold belt, Kenya
PhD candidate Maureene Auma Ondayo is investigating major and trace element exposure in the environment in Kenya, aiming to reduce exposure of humans to toxic chemicals.
![lake-loktak-the-manipuri-hills-and-local-fisherman](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/lake-loktak-the-manipuri-hills-and-local-fisherman-960x645.webp)
‘Core blimey!’ A PhD fieldwork trip to India
PhD student Hamish Duncalf-Youngson recently visited Manipur, India, to assess the effects of aquaculture, environmental change and pollution at this internationally important site.
![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.
![The coast on the surface of the river is covered with a pellicle of blue-green algae](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/iStock-1272284836-960x640.jpg)
How does public water use influence the amount of phosphorus in the environment?
New research looks at how phosphorus accumulates in public water systems in the USA.
![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)
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.
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Tracking nitrate and ammonium in the environment
Newly developed methodologies are improving our understanding of nitrogen cycling.
![Ducks on water, photo credit: HeikeKampe from Getty Images Signature](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Algal-blooms-HeikeKampe-from-Getty-Images-Signature.jpg)
Missing components of nitrogen cycling budgets across the United States
As a BGS-hosted Lancaster University PhD student, Elizabeth Flint has been working to understand the effects of water supply processes upon macronutrient cycling.