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 ...

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 ...

Shrink–swell ground movement, typically reported as subsidence, is one of the most damaging geohazards in the UK today. Many soils contain clay minerals that absorb water and swell when they get wet, ...

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, ...

Over 95 per cent of the water supply for the Tweed catchment, home to Berwick-upon-Tweed, is provided by groundwater. The Fell Sandstone Formation is the principal aquifer supplying drinking water, as ...

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.

‘True north’ is the direction to the geographic north pole; ‘grid north’ is where the vertical blue lines shown on Ordnance Survey (OS) maps converge, and ‘magnetic north’ is the direction that a ...

At over 1000 km long and 40 km deep, the Great Glen Fault is the largest geological fault structure in the UK. As part of ground investigations for SSE Renewables’ proposed pumped hydro storage scheme ...