London Earth is part of a national programme, G-BASE, to measure and map the chemical status of the surface environment of Great Britain.
Did the storms during the 2013 to 2014 winter season lead to an increase in sinkhole occurrence?
Partial collapse of a house in Ripon, Yorkshire, in 2014 was due to the formation of a sinkhole resulting from the dissolution of thick gypsum deposits beneath the area.
Our intention is to balance the safe retention and control of national geoscience databases and geological information, with the need to release information openly.
BGS has corporate policy positions on a range of geoscience topics. The science briefing papers allow BGS scientists to reflect and communicate their science in a succinct way to other experts, policymakers and the public.
Operations at the Preston New Road shale gas site led to an atmospheric venting of 4.2 tonnes of methane gas that was detected at a nearby station installed by researchers from the University of Manchester as part of a project led by the British Geological Survey (BGS).
Find out how a friend of BGS has been using Minecraft to create educational geological models during lockdown.
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