Flo Bullough and Megan O’Donnell share their reflections on the second week of international negotiations at the 26th UN Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow. The second week of the long-awaited 2021 UN climate conference has culminated in the announcement of the Glasgow Climate Pact. This international agreement strengthens global ambitions to mitigate the …
Updates from the first week of the 26th UN Conference of the Parties in Glasgow.
In late 2014, we signed up to the Science Council Declaration on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion, committing us to promoting a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion within the geoscience community.
Professor Mike Stephenson of the British Geological Survey, discusses the geology of energy transitions, and considers how understanding their history may reveal insights about how future transitions will unfold and develop.
The term ‘hydrogen economy’ was first coined by the chemist John Bockris, to describe the use of hydrogen as a fuel rather than the oil, gas and coal that form the present hydrocarbon economy.
Decarbonisation and the developing world To accompany the Society’s briefing note ‘The Role of Geoscience in Decarbonisation’ following this year’s Bryan Lovell Meeting, Mike Stephenson, Executive Chief Scientist at the British Geological Survey, has written a series of blogs unpacking some of the critical issues. This blog considers the challenge of decarbonisation in the developing …
A-level students from Cirencester College write about their experience taking part in the 2021 National Schools Geology Challenge. Continue reading
Renowned for its desolate and unforgiving landscape, Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest continent on the planet. Continue reading
e the amazing ways in which the geoscience community are working to bring geology into the wider world through innovative outreach projects. Continue reading
Towards the end of the Last Glacial Period, 14,650 years ago, one of the most rapid sea-level rises of recent geological time occurred… Continue reading
The Science Council’s CPD Awards are back for 2021 to continue the celebration of outstanding CPD – nominations open 17th May 2021. Continue reading
As I write in the early days of April 2021, we’re about to emerge from lockdown and outdoor dining will resume, hopefully before a measured resumption of some degree of normality. Not all outdoor dining can strictly be called normal. One of the sights on my daily lockdown walks was involved in what has become … Continue reading
Bethan Phillips and Lucy Pullen chat with the editors of Special Publication 506 ‘Celebrating 100 Years of Female Fellows of the Geological Society; Discovering Forgotten Histories’. Continue reading
Leading environmentalists have recently been urging the UK Government not to allow mining of metallurgical coal in Cumbria. Part of the environmentalists’ case is that approval of the Cumbrian mine would hinder UK’s leadership at the COP26 climate summit to be held in Glasgow this November. I disagree. Continue reading
Professor Mike Stephenson reflects on the intensified challenges facing the global provision of low carbon energy in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading
Whilst researching my postgraduate degree in 2000s, I became fascinated by the physiognomical pseudosciences which emerged at the end of the 18th century. Originating as parlour game entertainment, by the middle of the 19th century they developed into a much more sinister body of academia which sought to categorise individuals purely based on external physical … Continue reading
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