Earth Axis Tilt Change 2024 Calendar. Earth’s tilt recently made headlines when scientists revealed it had deviated 31.5 inches. In a second paper in nature geoscience, the same researchers also show that climate change is slowing the planet’s rate of rotation and its angle.

The phases of the moon represent its motion around the earth and its changing appearance when viewed from earth. Researchers used more than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening.