Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climate change is likely the cause of a recent shift in the Earth's axis of rotation, a new study suggests. Melting glaciers ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kansas Geological Survey field research technician Connor Umbrell measures water levels in an irrigation well Thursday, Jan. 5, ...

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 ...

1990s turning point: Melting of glaciers in Alaska, Greenland, the Southern Andes, Antarctica, the Caucasus and the Middle East accelerated in the mid-90s, becoming the main driver pushing Earth’s ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shifting water weight is changing the way Earth’s poles move around, a new study indicates. While Earth’s axis periodically shifts by itself, the effect is being exacerbated by human activity’s effect ...