Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built ...

That's great for hydropower, recreation, and ensuring there's enough water for basic human needs—but how those dams affect ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

The construction of thousands of dams around the world since the 19th century has caused Earth’s poles to shift by more than 3.7 feet ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

In an unexpected twist, Earth's spin is set to accelerate in July and August, leading to the shortest days on record - with ...

Kariba Dam, built on Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia in the 1950s, impounds the largest artificial reservoir in the ...

Earth is expected to spin faster than usual in the upcoming weeks, leading to slightly shorter days, scientists report, ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

Scientists found low-density amorphous ice in space isn’t fully random - it hides tiny crystals, reshaping our understanding ...