Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening how long an average day lasts. Incredibly, climate change is ...

"The current rapid rise in day length can thus be attributed primarily to human influences," said professor Benedikt Soja.

In the fight against the climate crisis, countries are pinning great hope in reforestation projects. In a new study, ETH ...

A seemingly small planetary neighbor may play a larger role in Earth’s climate than previously thought. Mars is only about ...

Climate change is lengthening our days because rising sea levels slow Earth's rotation. Researchers from the University of Vienna and ETH Zurich now show that the current increase in day length—1.33 ...

A new study suggests climate change is doing something few people could ever notice: it’s making Earth’s days slightly longer.

Scientists find K'gari’s lakes dried out 7,500 years ago, challenging assumptions that they remained full since the last ice age.

New geological evidence suggests that the slow wobble of Earth’s axis may have triggered rapid climate swings during the Late Cretaceous greenhouse world.

Rising sea levels caused by melting glaciers and polar ice sheets are slowing Earth's rotation, adding approximately 1.33 milliseconds to the length of a day every century ...

When English author J.R.R. Tolkien crafted his fantasy world Middle-earth, he argued storytellers are essentially “sub-creators” – they build fictional realms with internally consistent laws. For a ...

In this spirit of rigorous worldbuilding, we just published a new study where we merged the disparate disciplines of literary worldbuilding and climate modelling. We used complex computer programs – ...