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A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...
This is because the planet's rotation has entered an unexpected period of acceleration, but what would happen if it kept ...
Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built across the world, Earth's poles have tilted by over 1 meter (3 feet). The ...
China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...
Texas. North Carolina. Illinois. New Mexico. Flash flooding has surged into the spotlight in the last week with record-breaking flood events occurring nearly back-to-back across the country. Here’s ...
When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...
The antenna for the GOES-East weather satellite is nothing if not huge, as it communicates with a satellite close to 23,500 ...
Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...
As the climate warms, scientists expect animals and plants to move to cooler areas—uphill, toward the poles, or into deeper waters. But in a surprising twist, scientists have found that over a third ...
An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...
An important feature of the Tropics is the prevalence of rain in the moist inner regions near the equator, and that the seasonality of rainfall increases with the distance from the equator.