The North Pole is drifting, and experts are saying that the results may be drastic. One study reports that it's due to a sudden melting of ice and changing the planet's axis. Scientists warn that by ...

It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, and (given the time of year) Santa's sleigh: the position of the magnetic North Pole is officially being changed, continuing its ...

The magnetic North Pole is a point through which Earth's magnetic field converges and it continues changing according to the planet's change in its molten core. In 1831, a pole was identified in ...

Dramatic ice melt due to climate change may move the locations of Earth's geographic poles in the coming years, a new study finds. As ice sheets melt and ocean mass gets redistributed around the ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of ...

Over the past two centuries, the construction of thousands of dams has done more than just tame rivers – it has shifted the Earth’s North Pole about a meter from its original position. By storing ...

Will the pole shift actually happen? Discover more about Earth’s magnetic poles and how they’ve shifted in the past. Max Bennett is a science journalist and contributing writer for Discover Magazine, ...