Earth's axis — the invisible line around which it spins — is bookended by the north and south poles. The axis tilts, and thus the pole shift, depending on how weight is distributed across Earth's ...

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 ...

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’s spin is not as steady as it looks from the ground. As ice sheets melt and aquifers are drained, scientists now say the planet’s axis has shifted by more than 30 inches, a subtle but measurable ...

Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a perfect circle. Earth's distance from the Sun varies by about 3 million miles throughout the year. Earth's orbit's semimajor axis is approximately 93 million miles.

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 ...

As humans extract more and more groundwater, we are literally changing the composition of the planet, so much so that we are also shifting the tilt of the globe. According to a recent study in the ...

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 ...

The woman I was talking to seemed very sure of her facts, but they didn’t add up to me. She declared that the axis of the Earth had shifted 6 degrees, and somehow it was the fault of ...

Using observational and model-based data spanning the entire 20th century, scientists have for the first time have identified three broadly-categorized processes responsible for Earth's spin axis ...