Climate change may have changed the direction of the North Pole’s drift
A mid-1990s change in pole movement coincided with increased glacial melting
![aerial image of melting glaciers in the Andes mountains](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/042621_SP_north-pole-drift_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Glacial melt in Alaska, Greenland and the southern Andes (pictured), among other factors, spurred a change in which way the North Pole drifts, a new study suggests.
Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory/NASA’s Johnson Space Center