The impact of climate change is one of the biggest and most complicated challenges facing society today. We are developing a holistic climate change impact model to answer fundamental questions:
Information on BGS research into and monitoring of coastal erosion, coastal behaviour and sea level change. Coastal erosion case studies.
Understanding how ice masses behave is one of the key challenges facing the scientific community.
What effects did permafrost have on the near-surface geology in Britain? Research in Norfolk, UK.
This expedition will collect cores from fossil coral reefs to improve our understanding of change in sea level during the deglaciation that followed the last major ice age some 20 000 to 10 000 years ago.
BGS has set up a long-term monitoring programme at Virkisjökull, part of the climatically sensitive Oraefajökull Ice Cap in south-east Iceland.
Our aim in this project is to understand processes of environmental change in an upland soil-geoscape developed on resistant metasedimentary rocks.
Will flooding be more frequent or more severe? Will landslides or karst collapses be more frequent? Will the engineering of UK's infrastructure and housing be impacted by the shrinking and swelling of clay?