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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Beetle v. Geoid. If the earth were a perfect sphere, he says, it would not be stable on its axis. The “smallest beetle crawling over it would change the axis of rotation in relation to markings ...

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

It is the combination of the Earth’s shape, your location on Earth, its rotation on its axis along with its (orbit) around the Sun that gives us our experience of longer, warmer days in summer ...

the researchers found — which is in the same ballpark as the amount the Moon's pull slows the Earth's rotation over the same period. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to keep in touch with the ...