Articles by Maxwell Templeton

Earth Rotation Climate Change Rate Unseen in 3.6 Million Years: GPS Precision at Stake

Earth rotation climate change is altering our planet's spin at a rate unmatched in 3.6 million years, a new study finds. Melting polar ice is lengthening days by 1.33 milliseconds per century — a pace that now strains GPS navigation accuracy and spacecraft systems and threatens to outpace even the Moon's gravitational pull by century's end.