Earth’s prevailing winds are fastest in the northern hemisphere winter, but slowest from June to August, so the summer months ...

“If we moved Earth Overshoot Day out six days every year continuously, we'd be down to less than one planet before 2050,” Wackernagel said. “But given the huge climate debt, we may have to ...

Earth could see the "shortest day in history" today, scientists have said. Just weeks ago, the planet experienced a day some 1.3 milliseconds shorter than normal - but since then, the Earth's ...

Today, there is still momentum behind Earth Day to pass climate change legislation and act on behalf of the environment. In 2016, the landmark Paris Agreement was signed by more than 120 countries ...

A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why.

It doesn’t happen often that the Earth puts timekeepers in their place, but on August 5, 2025, the world is set to do just ...

Until 2020, the shortest "length of day" ever recorded by atomic clocks was -1.05 ms, meaning that Earth completed one daily rotation in 1.05 milliseconds less than 86,400 seconds.

Therefore, the days grow longer. But that is a process that takes billions of years and is complicated by short-term fluctuations. Centuries of data show that the speed of Earth’s rotation has ...

Until 2020, the shortest "length of day" ever recorded by atomic clocks was -1.05 ms, meaning that Earth completed one daily rotation in 1.05 milliseconds less than 86,400 seconds.

On June 29, 2022, Earth's angular momentum was so low (and the atmosphere's angular momentum so high) that the planet saw an LOD of -1.59 milliseconds—the shortest day ever recorded.

Zotov predicts Earth’s rotation may soon decelerate once again. If he’s right, this sudden speeding-up could prove to be just ...