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 … 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 Geological Society of London (GSL) is proud to announce the launch of our first fully open access journal, Earth Science, Systems and Society (ES3), for 2021. ES3 will publish timely and topical research of high importance across the breadth of the geosciences with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary geoscience and the pivotal role it … Continue reading
Back in October 2017, as part of our ’50 years of Plate Tectonics’ celebrations, we launched our Plate Tectonic Stories Competition along with our online web resource on 20 sites around the UK and Ireland that showcase the influence of plate tectonic processes. The competition closed in April and we’ve had so many fantastic and … Continue reading
Day 2 of Earth Science Week saw events happening across the country, from Fort William to Northern Ireland, as well continued coverage of our #100geosites project. Continue reading
Earth Science Week is nearly upon us, and there’s a huge range of activities going on across the UK & Ireland! There’s also lots going on online, including a brand new project we’re really excited about…. Ask a Geologist Live! Continue reading
One of our nominated 100geosites took centre stage yesterday at the British Science Festival, as Professor Vincent Gaffney and colleagues unveiled the latest from the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, led by the University of Birmingham in conjunction with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology. Continue reading
The theory that the dramatic landscapes of the Columbia River Plateau were caused by massive flooding in the distant past might not sound too controversial. But, as Sanjeev Gupta told us in our British Science Festival event yesterday, the theory, first proposed in 1923 by American geologist J Harlen Bretz, was so controversial it sparked a … Continue reading
Last month, Professor Richard Davies of the ReFINE (Researching Fracking In Europe) project at Durham University gave a GSL Lecture entitled ‘Fracked or Fiction: What are the risks associated with shale gas production?’ In this guest post, Richard and his ReFINE colleague Liam Herringshaw explain a bit more about and the challenges faced in researching … Continue reading
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