National Geographic: Climate Change Is Moving the North Pole
As ice melts and aquifers are drained, Earth's distribution of mass is changing-and with it the position of the planet's spin axis.
The collapse of Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002 is just one example of shrinking glaciers around the world, a process that is changing the planet's mass distribution.
Finding the North Pole means traveling north, right? Yes, but with a slight caveat: Earth's northern pole is drifting rapidly eastward, and it looks...