Three new geomagnetic observatories have been installed across the UK to fill in the country’s 'blind spots' and tackle the risk posed by space weather.
The recent closure of Hemsby beach in Norfolk provides key information on the transformational challenge of coasts around England and evidence of historical change along the coastlines of England and Wales.
Applications range from mineral exploration and waste management, to monitoring active processes within the subsurface, such as the movement of pollutants, or the flow of groundwater in unstable slopes affecting infrastructure.
This laboratory is used to study chemical reactions between fluids and rocks under conditions found in the top few kilometres of the Earth's crust.
BGS scientists visited north-east Japan to study the area devastated by the tsunami caused by the Great Tohoku earthquake of 11 March 2011.
BGS is part of an inspiring new project designed to bring science and poetry together to imagine a more prosperous, sustainable planet.
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