This may sound trivial, but over the last 20 years alone, the pumping of groundwater – mostly for drinking – has caused Earth’s rotation to tilt eastwards by nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 ...

That's how quickly Earth rotates on its axis, from West to East. And that rotation is largely responsible for the distribution of every desert, forest, and swamp on the planet. So, let's do a ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A single rotation of our planet takes 24 hours and constitutes a day.

It might sound unbelievable, but the way we pump and use groundwater is actually tilting the Earth and impacting its rotation. A study reveals that over the span of just two decades, human ...

Earth has been in a hurry in recent years. As per International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems (IERS), in 2020, Earth recorded 28 shortest days. If Earth continues to break records with its ...

It came against a long-term background of a gradual slowing of Earth’s rotation, caused by the the ebb and flow of tides, the flow of magma, the melting of ice caps and other factors that ...