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Melting ice is causing the Earth's axis to shift direction
Description: Climate change is doing more than melting Earth's enormous polar ice sheets: It's actually changing the Earth's rotation. Earth does not always spin on an axis running through its poles. Instead, it wobbles irregularly over time, drifting toward North America throughout most of the 20th Century. That direction has changed drastically due to changes in water mass on Earth. [Source: Public Radio International]
URL: https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-05-04/melting-ice-causing-earths-axis-shift-direction
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Source: Public Radio International
Publish Date: 5/4/2016
Reading Level: Basic
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