Experts analyze climate models and satellite data to find the link between increasing arid soil and Earth's rotation.

Global warming is flooding low-lying coastal regions, but it’s drying out the land beyond. The most serious consequences of ...

While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

The study, published in March in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says the dramatic ice melt would redistribute the ...

A gigantic dam, our extraction of groundwater, melting ice sheets and rising sea levels are all altering Earth’s spin. The ...

According to a report in Science, researchers have determined that water on land, which includes soil moisture levels, underground aquifers, lakes, rivers and other water-holding surfaces, has been ...

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Earth’s axis of rotation is tilted, as you can see from this illustration. This means that day and night are not equal lengths in most places on the planet. As Earth moves through its orbit ...

Astronomers confirm Uranus’ rotation period using internal oscillation ... Unlike on Mars and Earth, savage windstorms make it far more difficult to identify the rot... Recent seismic data ...

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that a day on Uranus lasts for 28 seconds longer than previously thought – ...

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