A 150-year-old painting of Dryburgh Suspension Bridge and the River Tweed offers an insight into the Scottish Borders ...

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 ...

As sea levels continue to rise today, coastlines around the world are changing before our eyes. Cliffs retreat, beaches migrate and storms re-shape the shoreline. However, these processes are not new.

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 ...

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 ...

More than 700 additional geological samples from the vicinity of the ceased Foss Mine near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, are now available for study at the National Geological Repository (NGR), located at ...

Since 1913, BGS and its predecessor organisations have complied annual production and trade statistics on a wide range of mineral commodities. In the latest volume, World Mineral Production 2020–2024, ...

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.

Millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa rely on hand-pumped boreholes (HPBs) for their water supply, but they are often unreliable, with frequent breakdowns and long repair times. Although there have ...

As the UK works toward its net zero ambitions, attention is increasingly turning offshore, where geological formations under the sea floor may hold the key to long-term carbon dioxide (CO₂) storage.

Geologists at BGS have completed a major update to the geological map of the Yorkshire Wolds, where the underlying rocks and sediments play a vital role as natural reservoirs for the region’s ...