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At almost 70,000 square metres, Lake Victoria is the third largest lake in the world. Over 200,000 fishers work its waters directly, sustaining a fishing economy worth over $1 billion and feeding in excess of 42 million people across Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
BGS are part of a new project,
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 well as being a vital resource for farming and industry in the region. Careful management of this critical resource is particularly important in a changing climate.
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We run in-person continuing professional development (CPD) sessions for primary teachers from our London and Keyworth offices. If you’re a teacher following the National Curriculum in England or Wales and want to get to grips with rocks, fossils, mountains, volcanoes and other geology teaching in the primary curriculum, join us for a session of lessons and demos you can take...
Sand is the most extracted solid material on Earth (currently 50 billion tonnes annually). Rapid urbanisation, driven by large-scale migration into cities, has fuelled a growing need for sand as a building material, with demand expected to rise by 45 per cent by 2060.
Due to this rise in demand, sand mining has increased across the globe, often including ...
The new BGS GeoClimate data product provides information on the potential for clay shrink-swell subsidence under multiple climate scenarios.
Soils and rocks with high clay content are prone to absorbing water when wet, causing them to expand. As these deposits dry out, they contract, reducing in size. These changes produce ground movement which can cause overlying ...