Geological samples recovered from the UK’s first giant oil field in the 1970s continue to inform industry and researchers ...

BGS has secured Bronze accreditation under the Advance HE Race Equality Charter framework, recognising its commitment to ...

BGS has been trialling a novel bioaccessibility tracing technique to ascertain if it offers more analytical precision over ...

The origin of the Kinnekulle tephra, a huge volcanic ash layer spread across Norway, Sweden, the Baltic region, Belarus and Poland, has long been a mystery but new evidence may have uncovered the ...

Groundwater is a critical water source in the UK. Across England it provides around a third of the overall public water supply and as much as 100 per cent in some communities in south-east England and ...

New research by BGS, in collaboration with Durham University and the University of Dundee, shows that the shallow seabed of the North Sea is more geologically complex than typically represented in ...

Natural hydrogen gas is generated through a range of geochemical and biochemical reactions within rock formations. It has recently gained significant attention as a potential clean energy source ...

The Giant’s Causeway, located in Country Antrim, Northern Ireland, is one of the UK’s most instantly recognisable natural landmarks. The distinctive columnar landscape was formed during intense ...

The UK is an important producer of a range of minerals that are consumed in many sectors of the economy. Some 172.3 million tonnes of minerals were extracted from the UK landmass for sale in 2024.

Current methods used to forecast aftershocks — secondary quakes that can prove more deadly than initial earthquakes — can take several hours or days. New machine learning models have now been ...

BGS Geology, BGS’s digital geological maps covering Great Britain, is based on a suite of published paper maps enhanced with latest digital mapping. It is periodically updated with information from ...

The Jakarta Fault runs beneath the southern part of the capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta. Jakarta is one of the largest cities in the world, with a population exceeding 30 million in the ...