Researchers Claim to Know Why the Earth’s Rotation Is Wobblier Than Before Environmental change has caused many alterations ...

A gigantic dam, our extraction of groundwater, melting ice sheets and rising sea levels are all altering Earth’s spin. The ...

While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

Global warming is flooding low-lying coastal regions, but it’s drying out the land beyond. The most serious consequences of ...

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

While Earth is, on average, pretty reliable and takes 86,400 seconds to rotate around its axis, this is not perfect. ”When highly accurate atomic clocks were developed in the 1960s, they showed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earth Rotation Day was observed globally on Wednesday. The day celebrates the rotation of planet earth on its axis which is crucial for defining time and shape of life. Earth rotates on its axis, an ...