We caught up with Professor Mike Stephenson, Chief Scientist for Decarbonisation and Resource Management at the BGS for a chat about the links between geoscience and decarbonisation. Continue reading
Category Archives: Year of Carbon
The story of thirteen diamonds and their inclusions
A guest blog by Kate Kiseeva (University of Cork/University of Oxford), who gave our March 2019 Public Lecture at Burlington House. Continue reading
What can we do with CO2?
The Science in Schools programme has been running for over 10 years, bringing exciting and cutting edge scientific workshops crafted by UK researchers to French school children. Continue reading
Defining Earth in five reactions
At the Geological Society’s Janet Watson Meeting in February 2019, Dr Simon Redfern from the Deep Carbon Observatory explained their recent work to define the five key reactions that control carbon in the Earth. Continue reading
Geology vs. climate change
How can geology help with the decarbonisation of our society? Continue reading
Can abandoned mines heat our future?
At Durham University, scientists are exploring the opportunity to use the water within flooded abandoned mines to provide a source of geothermal heat for the future. This could also deliver economic opportunities to former mining areas. Continue reading
