NASA scientists have issued a warning that China's Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydroelectric power station in the world, could potentially affect Earth's rotation. The enormous dam, located on the ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

NASA scientists have warned that China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power station, has the potential to slightly alter Earth's rotation. This shocking discovery by NASA ...

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 construction of China- ..|News Track ...

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 ...

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

Like adding weight to a spinning top, this change causes Earth’s rotation to slightly slow, showing just how megastructures impact our planetary mechanics. 3. Cosmic Skater Earth’s spin ...

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