Britain’s coal-powered past may still have an important role to play in its green future where water collecting in the scars left by historic mining activity may provide a valuable source of heat with minimal carbon emissions. Continue reading
Category Archives: Features
Employer support for wellbeing
For Mental Health Awareness Week, the Geological Society is looking at ways to support the wellbeing of geoscience students and professionals. In the final of four blogs, we describe how employers can promote wellbeing in the workplace. As the UK ends its second month in lockdown, health organisations from around the world are warning that … Continue reading
Supporting mental health in the field
For Mental Health Awareness Week, the Geological Society is looking at ways to support the wellbeing of geoscience students and professionals. In this third of four blogs, Lesley Batty shares examples of straightforward ways to support the wellbeing of students undertaking fieldwork. As discussed in part one of this blog, being away from home and … Continue reading
Mental health and fieldwork
For Mental Health Awareness Week, the Geological Society is looking at ways to support the wellbeing of geoscience students and professionals. In this second of four blogs, Lesley Batty explores how fieldwork can affect the mental health and wellbeing of students. Fieldwork is a core skill for many subjects and is a requirement for accreditation … Continue reading
Mental health matters
An estimated 1 in 4 adults in the UK experience a mental health issue each year. For Mental Health Awareness Week, the Geological Society is looking at ways to support the wellbeing of geoscience students and professionals. Many of us may have come across the statistic that 1 in 4 people will face a mental … Continue reading
Responsible Investing in Natural Resources
What exactly is ‘Responsible Investing’? How can it be measured and delivered effectively? Can the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) help to drive responsibility in the mining industry? Continue reading
Energy transitions: the geological story
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. Continue reading
The Big Antarctic Freeze
At The Geological Society in September 2019, Professor Caroline Lear delivered a public talk entitled ‘The Big Antarctic Freeze’. Amy Woodward, a second year Geophysics student at Imperial College, wrote the following blog post about Carrie’s lecture. Continue reading
2019 Earth Science Week Photography Competition Winners Announced!
Earth Science Week is here for 2019 and we are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s ‘Geoscience if for everyone’ photography competition! Continue reading
How can we decarbonise economic development?
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 … Continue reading
