The story begins in 1835, when the first of what would become thousands of dams was built. These human-made reservoirs store ...

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

New research has revealed that humans have built so many dams that the Earth's poles have shifted slightly. According to ...

GPS systems, planes and military equipment track the magnetic field and rely on accurate models of magnetic north to function ...

When the polar vortex stretches, North America feels the chill. New research reveals some of the stratospheric patterns ...

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the planet's axis of rotation, according to recent research.

Scientists found that large-scale dam building since 1835 shifted Earth's poles over a meter and significantly lowered sea ...

The most eye-popping example of dams’ astronomical impact can be seen by analyzing the effects of China’s Three Gorges Dam, ...

Over the past 200 years, humans have stored hundreds of billions of liters of water in thousands of dams around the world. In ...

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

Scientists have traced the shifting and strengthening Southern jet stream to global warming and other major climate drivers.