Climate change is changing how we keep time
Melting ice sheets are slowing Earth's rotation speed, complicating global timekeeping
![A picture of Greenland's ice sheet near Baffin Bay.](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/032724_cg_climate-timekeeping_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
The rapidly accelerating melting of Earth’s polar ice sheets — including ice atop Greenland (shown here) — is slowing the planet’s spin, which affects global timekeeping.
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