Earth’s spin is not as steady as it looks. As ice melts and groundwater is pumped from deep aquifers to the surface, the planet’s mass is shifting, and with it the position of the rotational axis that ...

The axis of the moon shifted three billion years ago, and ancient volcanoes may be to blame, a new study reports. This starling conclusion, on a body thought to be long-dead, was derived from an ...

DALLAS, March 23 (UPI) --Planetary scientist Matt Siegler noticed something odd while analyzing the distribution of polar hydrogen on the moon. The ancient ice, thought to reside in the pits of ...

The reason for a 1990s shift in Earth's axis is climate change, according to a new study. More specifically, the melting of glaciers that's occurred as a result of global warming is the cause of a ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Humans’ unquenchable thirst for groundwater has sucked so much liquid from subsurface reserves that it’s affecting Earth’s tilt, according to a new study. Groundwater provides drinking water ...

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