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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

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

By Sid Perkins

- More than 2 years ago

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A sudden zag in which way the North Pole was drifting in the 1990s probably stemmed in large part from glacial melt caused by climate change, a new study suggests.