In addition to changing the Earth’s rotation, dams have caused a global decrease in water levels. Dams have long been one of ...

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

In 2024, researchers transformed readings of an epic upheaval of Earth's magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago into an ...

Scientists found that large-scale dam building since 1835 shifted Earth's poles over a meter and significantly lowered sea ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

In the recent past, the magnetic North Pole has moved 34 miles a year toward Russia. Just a half-century ago, the magnetic North Pole was wandering about 7 miles each year. Movement of Earth's ...

It has a north and south magnetic pole, separate from the geographic poles, Like most planets in our solar system, the Earth has its own magnetic field. Thanks to its largely molten iron core, our ...

Magnetic north versus ‘true north’ At the top of the world in the middle of the Arctic Ocean lies the geographic North Pole, the point where all the lines of longitude that curve around Earth ...

Red is magnetic north to the east of geographic north; blue is to the west. BGS/UKRI/Wessel, P./W. H. F. Smith via CNN Newsource Pictured are the magnetic north pole locations from 1590 to 2030.