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The landslide occurred in a spoil heap at Hatfield Main Colliery and distorted a large section of train line along the Doncaster to Goole and Doncaster to Scunthorpe lines.

More about the Hatfield Colliery landslide

Citation search of BGS outputs compiled from Scopus for the period 1 Jan 2007 to 31 December 2012 and the top 10 downloads, from the NERC Open Research Archive (NORA), of publications during the period 1 Jan 2007 to 31 December 2012.

Groundwater is an important source of drinking water and it is estimated that more than 200 million people worldwide are drinking groundwater with fluoride concentrations greater than the WHO guideline value of 1.5  mg/L. The majority of these cases occur in the developing world.

Groundwaters are much more vulnerable to fluoride enrichment than surface waters because of the greater impacts of water-rock reactions in aquifers. We have worked on fluoride occurrence in a number of aquifers in the UK and overseas, and with a number of research partners.

Studies include:

• fluoride and health
• high-fluoride groundwater provinces
• mitigating fluoride problems

More about Fluoride in groundwater

The BGS recently held a forum to provide our stakeholders with a summary of recent science results, its impact, and our future direction.

Some of our leading scientists delivered talks about of their recent work; you can download some of the presentations at the link below.