Melting glaciers have changed that distribution enough to knock Earth off its axis, research showed. Since 1980, Earth's north and south poles have drifted about 13 feet.

The climate crisis is making days longer, and it’s bad news for tech. According to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, climate change is slowing down the Earth ...

Melting ice at the poles due to climate change may impact the Earth's spin, altering our global clock. According to a new paper in the journal Nature, the "leap second" due to be added to ...

But while melting ice may be slowing the Earth’s spin, there’s another factor at play when it comes to global timekeeping, according to the report: processes in the Earth’s core.

In short: The melting of Earth's ice caps is slowing the rate at which the planet spins. New research suggests this will have implications for how we adjust the world's "UTC" time standard, to ...

So much ice is melting at the Earth's poles that it's affecting the rotation of the planet, scientists say. Its spin is slowing down slightly, causing days to get longer.

Humanity's activities and climate change are impacting the polar ice sheets, causing excessive melting, and this is slowing Earth’s rotation, challenging official timekeeping standards.

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large glaciers began to melt. The sea levels rose quickly—about 1 ...

A research project is collecting ice cores from glaciers and icefields before they melt way. The aim is to study both the past and possible future of humanity's impact on the world's climate.

Now a study out Monday shows that the melting of the polar ice caps is causing our planet to spin more slowly, increasing the length of days at an "unprecedented" rate. "It's like when a figure ...

But while melting ice may be slowing the Earth’s spin, there’s another factor at play when it comes to global timekeeping, according to the report: processes in the Earth’s core.