Scientists anticipate that Earth's rotation will quicken enough to create three shorter days between July and August, starting Wednesday, July 9.

Humans may have altered the Earth’s rotation significantly between 1993 and 2010 alone by pumping large quantities of water out of the ground and moving it elsewhere. Alarming levels of ...

Human-driven climate change has 'slowed the Earth's rotation' and could affect how we measure time, study suggests. The melting of ice in Greenland and Antarctica is said to have slowed the ...