If there's one thing big-budget Hollywood disaster films have taught us, it's that the Earth's poles are nothing to be messed with. But apocalyptic fiction aside, scientists have been tracking the ...

Scientists are grappling with the magnetic North Pole’s continued drift towards Russia, a phenomenon that could impact smartphone navigation accuracy. Unlike the geographical North Pole, the magnetic ...

The Earth’s North Magnetic Pole is approaching Russia at a speed never seen before, which could spell disaster for your ...

[Note: I may have to start a series of "No, a blank won't blank" posts; there's been a spate of nonsensical doomsday pseudoscience lately. Sigh.] Worse, what shields the planet from cancer-causing ...

As the calendar nears the fateful end of Mayan timekeeping on Dec. 21, 2012, the pole shift hypothesis is one possible contender for bringing about the end of the world. Is it a possible event? If so, ...

Don't think of this as another sign of the apocalypse, but Earth's magnetic north pole has been shifting enough that Tampa's airport has to repaint the numbers on its runways. Tampa International ...

Despite the north pole being a fixed location in the Arctic circle, the Magnetic North Pole is a wandering location which changes year on year. The Magnetic North Pole describes the point where the ...