We Are Slowing Down the Planet

Earth from geostationary orbit (Credit : European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites)

The days are getting longer. Not by much though since we’re talking about fractions of a millisecond, but the rate at which our planet is slowing down is, according to a new study, completely without precedent in the last 3.6 million years. The culprit isn’t the Moon, the Sun or anything in Earth’s interior. It’s us, homo sapiens.

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