14Aug 2024
MELTING POLAR ICE DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAKING EARTH’S DAYS LONGER
Relevance: GS 1 – Salient features of world’s physical geography; GS 3 – Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment. Why in the news? Over the last two decades, scientists have observed that the Earth’s rotation rate has slowed by approximately 1.3 milliseconds per century. Due to the ongoing melting of polar ice caps, …
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