Historian and cartographer Anthony Acciavatti is Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Architecture.

A 9.1 magnitude earthquake did more than trigger a deadly tsunami. NASA explains how it affected Earth’s axis and day length.

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

Climate change is causing a significant redistribution of mass on Earth due to melting ice sheets, leading to a shift in the ...

When a massive 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra on December 26, 2004, the world witnessed one of the ...

The day has become 0.06 microseconds longer, and the Earth's axis has shifted by about 2 cm due to the Chinese Three Gorges ...

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 changes, ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

Future studies may also help scientists and governments plan for adaptations. Scientists flabbergasted after observing major ...

The study, published in March in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says the dramatic ice melt would redistribute the ...

According to a report in Science, researchers have determined that water on land, which includes soil moisture levels, underground aquifers, lakes, rivers and other water-holding surfaces, has been ...

The Earth sits comfortably in its orbit tilted on its axis at 23 degrees. Knock the planet over - and it wouldn't be the Earth as you know it.