Human engineering appears to have moved the planet, literally. According to new research published this month, the global boom in dam construction over the past two centuries has caused measurable ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built across the world, Earth's poles have tilted by over 1 meter (3 feet). The ...

When completed in 1930, the structure — stretching 1.5 miles long and rising 210 feet high — was the largest earthen dam in ...

06:33, Wed, Oct 1, 2025 Updated: 06:36, Wed, Oct 1, 2025 It is essentially impossible to functionally change the passing of time on Earth; despite this, NASA has announced that a man-made structure in ...

Since the construction of this dam in 1994 ... By shifting such an immense mass across the surface of the planet, the dam alters Earth's distribution of weight. This matters because of the principle ...

AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State University engineering students hope that auctioning a rare work of folk art can help fund construction of an earthen dam for an African village. The artwork is a painted ...

NEWPORT, Ore. — On a recent warm spring day, bald eagles circled above the Big Creek Reservoir, northeast of Newport, as several anglers cast lazy lines into the deep green waters. The tranquil scene ...