Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation

April 3, 2024 by lisa nichols

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. As polar ice has melted and moved mass towards the Equator, it has slowed Earth’s rotation.Credit: Alessandro Dahan/Getty Melting ice caps are slowing the rotation of the Earth and could delay the next leap second by … Read more

Climate change has slowed Earth’s rotation — and could affect how we keep time

March 27, 2024 by lisa nichols

Climate change is starting to alter how humans keep time. An analysis1 published in Nature on 27 March has predicted that melting ice caps are slowing Earth’s rotation to such an extent that the next leap second — the mechanism used since 1972 to reconcile official time from atomic clocks with that based on Earth’s … Read more