The magnetic north pole has shifted over 400 km from Canada towards Russia in the past century due to changes in Earth's molten core. Scientists use the World Magnetic Model to monitor this ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

As Kagge argues, the North Pole has tugged at the imagination long before mankind had any clue what actually lay there. The Ancient Greeks believed a land of sunshine and rich earth could be found ...

For decades, Earth’s magnetic north pole has been slowly drifting across ... the “biggest deceleration in speed we’ve ever seen,” Brown adds in the statement. British and American ...

Not to be confused with the Geographic North Pole, sometimes called “True North,” which sits at the very northern tip of the Earth, the MPN is the location that compasses use as a guide for North.

This new model updates the location of magnetic north while also providing improved navigation for technologies reliant on Earth’s magnetic field. Updated every five years, scientists have ...

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A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the ...

It is a normal pattern that is stronger in the winter and keeps some of the coldest weather bottled up near the North Pole. But at times ... overall warming pattern. Earth's average overall ...

Understand how extreme cold events are changing due to climate change and what this means for our winters ahead.

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.