Climate Change Is Messing with Earth’s Axis
Ice melting has caused a drift in polar motion. Around the year 2000, Earth’s spin axis took an abrupt turn, and scientists have suggested that the loss of mass from Greenland and Antarctica’s rapidly melting ice sheet could be causing the eastward shift of the spin axis.
Website reveals which homes will be swamped by rising sea levels
For the first time, Australians can see on a map how rising sea levels will affect their house just by typing their address into a website.
This Will Be the Biggest Dam-Removal Project in History
More than 400 miles of the Klamath River system that have been blocked for a century will open up for people and wildlife. Federal officials, the states of Oregon and California, and the utility PacifiCorp signed agreements opening the way for removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, which flows from Oregon through Northern California.