By trapping trillions of gallons of water behind nearly 7,000 dams since 1835, enough to fill the Grand Canyon twice, humans have redistributed the planet’s mass enough to cause a phenomenon known as ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

Everything in the sky felt upside down and opposite, compared with what I was used to. A person who lives in the Southern Hemisphere might feel the same about visiting the Arctic or the North Pole.

In the bottom left corner of Mercator’s famous 1569 world map, he included the first known map of the North Pole (which was later published separately under the title Septentrionalium Terrarum).

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of ...

Ponant's new Le Commandant Charcot is the first expedition cruise ship capable of reaching the North Pole.

The magnetic north pole’s movement, which has suddenly accelerated toward Siberia this century, raises questions about what’s driving the unusual shift and why its motion matters.

Check your compass again – Earth’s north magnetic pole is moving toward Siberia. Since at least the early 19th century, Earth’s north magnetic pole has been situated in the Canadian Arctic ...

Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.

As it does every year, NORAD, the North American Aerospace Command, tracked Santa on his trip around the world on Christmas Eve so children and families could see where he was.

North Pole shifts towards Siberia, updating Earths magnetic map tenfold Magnetic North Poles rapid transition prompts updates for navigation systems a ...