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Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth's rotation, with possible consequences for timekeeping
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 months agoGlobal warming has slightly slowed the Earth’s rotation — and it could affect how we measure time. A...
Earth’s Rotation Is Alarmingly Slowing Down
Prevention via Yahoo News· 2 months agoGlobal Warming Is Slowing Earth’s RotationHenrik Sorensen - Getty Images In recent years, the Earth’s rotation has been speeding up due to dynamics in...
Polar ice is melting and changing Earth’s rotation. It’s messing with time itself
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOne day in the next couple of years, everyone in the world will lose a second of their time. Exactly...
How rising temperatures affect the Earth’s rotation
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThis Aug. 26, 2017, photo made available by NASA shows Hurricane Harvey over Texas as seen from the International Space Station. A new study found that...
Climate change and polar ice melting could be impacting the length of Earth's day
Space via Yahoo News· 2 months agoHumanity's activities and climate change are impacting the polar ice sheets, causing excessive...
Melting polar ice may be slowing Earth’s spin and messing with how we measure time
Euronews via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn the next couple of years, everyone on Earth will lose a second of time but when exactly this...
The Indian Ocean's mysterious gravity hole may be the result of a prehistoric ocean erased by time
Salon via Yahoo News· 10 months ago2011 GOCE Earth's geoid European Space Agency/HPF/DLR There is a place on Earth where the laws of...
Melting ice caps may set our clocks back one second by next decade
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThe costly effects of climate change may dent more than our wallets by the 2030s. Researchers found...
The Earth broke its record for the shortest day – and the effects could be ‘devastating’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Earth has set a new record for the shortest day. The planet completed a full spin on 29 June...
Earth’s core is speeding up and slowing down
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoYou’d think, of all the planets in the Universe, the one we’d know best is the one we live on. But that’s actually part of the problem: Living on it....