The Earth’s axis is shifting east at an estimated rate of 1.7 inches every year due to a decade’s worth of consistent groundwater extraction and relocation, according to a study published in the ...

Earth is often described as a circle or an oval, but it is neither. As the planet spins more than 1,000 miles per hour at the ...

A recent groundbreaking study published in Geophysical Research Letters has revealed an astonishing new insight: Earth’s rotational axis has shifted 31.5 inches in less than two decades, largely due ...

A strange impact of the continuously warming climate is that colossal amounts of ice melting into the planet's oceans have played a prominent role in moving Earth's axis — the invisible line Earth ...

Star trails above the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, Hubei province, China. Large dams like this one are shifting the Earth's poles away from its axis of rotation. In an ideal model of our planet, the ...

Humans have pumped so much groundwater out of the Earth that we have shifted the Earth's rotational pole, according to a study. In a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, ...

Hold onto your sense of balance. Scientists have found fresh proof that Earth doesn't just drift through space — sometimes, it actually tips over. You already know that continents slowly move due to ...

Runoff from irrigation has moved so much water from land to sea that Earth’s rotation might have measurably shifted. Computer simulations suggest that from 1993 through 2010, irrigation alone nudged ...

Glacial melting due to global warming is likely the cause of a shift in the movement of the poles that occurred in the 1990s. The locations of the North and South poles aren’t static, unchanging spots ...

WASHINGTON, DC, May 16, 2021 (ENS) – Glacial melting due to climate change is likely the cause of a shift in the movement of the poles that occurred in the 1990s, new research from China shows.