There are a whole host of issues that are coming along with the melting ice caps. That said, “slowing the planet’s rotation” was not on my bingo card. Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist and ...

A groundbreaking study published inGeophysical Research Letters has revealed that Earth’s North and South Poles are shifting ...

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Captured during Expedition 19, NASA’s satellite photos show how the Three Gorges Dam subtly changes Earth’s rotation and axis ...

Melting ice masses also alter the Earth's axis of rotation. Over long timeframes, this polar motion can move the rotation axis points on the Earth's surface by about ten meters per hundred years.

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large ...

A recent study published in Nature suggests that global warming-induced melting of polar ice is causing a slowdown in the Earth's rotation, potentially leading to changes in our clocks ...

Scientists from the Higher School of Economics Zurich in Switzerland have found that by the end of the century, the Earth’s geographical poles could shift by 27 meters due to melting of glaciers and ...

To put it in perspective, you’d need over 16 million structures like the Three Gorges Dam to slow Earth’s rotation enough to add a full second to the year. So, while it’s an interesting ...

As ice sheets melt and ocean mass gets redistributed around the planet, Earth's geographic North and South poles could shift up to 89 feet (27 meters) by 2100 as the planet's axis of rotation ...