New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

Scientists have managed to turn Laschamps event, or the cosmic event when Earth's magnetic poles switched places – the North ...

New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...

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

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

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 ...

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

Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the ...

This is because the planet's rotation has entered an unexpected period of acceleration, but what would happen if it kept ...

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

The path of totality will carve an arc of darkness across the surface of our planet – at the height of the August tourist ...