The Earth’s axis of rotation is shifting due to climate change and movements in the Earth’s interior. The corresponding polar motion is triggered by shifts in mass such as the melting of polar ice ...

A group of researchers has revealed that climate change, although minimally, affects the lengthening of the day and the alteration of Earth’s rotation axis. And the reason is clear: the loss of ice ...

The Earth has lost enough groundwater to thirsty humans to measurably tilt the planet’s axis of rotation 1. The net water lost from underground reservoirs between 1993 and 2010 is estimated to be more ...