NASA scientists have issued a warning that China's Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydroelectric power station in the world, ...

and this same law also governs the Earth's rotation. If the Earth turns more slowly, the days get longer. Climate change is therefore also altering the length of the day on Earth, albeit only ...

Yet, NASA issued a startling warning about the potential consequences of filling the dam. The space agency cautioned that such a massive accumulation of water could slightly alter Earth’s rotation.

So, let's do a little experiment. Let's say we reverse Earth's rotation. What then? Well, you'll change a lot more than just the sunsets. This may seem like a ridiculous scenario at first.

Don't worry — this change in Earth's rotation won't be catastrophic. However, it does mean that we'll have to adjust our time keeping, which may be a problem for much of the computing we rely on.

In a second paper in Nature Geoscience, the same researchers also show that climate change is slowing the planet’s rate of rotation and its angle. Exactly where the axis of rotation meets Earth ...

However, the root cause could be climate change, with the melting of the ice caps possibly slowing the rate of Earth’s rotation. Scientists know Earth’s rate of rotation is, over the long term ...

Can you imagine a dam so huge that it can slow down the daily movement of the Earth? Well, there is one. The massive ...

One of humanity's largest ever projects is slowing down the spin of the Earth, making our days slightly longer. Work on China ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has come up with another fantastic study, which says that ...

The Three Gorges Dam in China had a measurable impact on Earth's rotation, says scientists from the US space agency NASA. The dam spans the Yangtze Ri ...

NASA scientists have warned that China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power station, has the potential ...