Magnetic pole shifts, a subject shrouded in both fascination and fear, refer to the movement of Earth's magnetic north and south poles. Unlike the geographic poles, which are fixed, magnetic poles ...

the magnetic south pole — the point in the Southern Hemisphere where the magnetic field points straight into the planet — doesn't move in quite the same way. But changes in the strength of the ...

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As of now, "the magnetic South Pole has moved very little," said Brown to Newsweek, adding that it has covered "about the same distance in a century that the North Pole did in a decade." ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

it produces its own magnetic field the magnetic field cannot ... field lines The needle of a plotting compass points to the south pole of the magnet. The behaviour of a compass shows that the ...

If you bring a north pole and a south pole together, they will attract. Earth's core contains liquid iron which moves around. Iron is magnetic so the liquid iron causes Earth to have a magnetic field.

Some animals that migrate across the globe—such as birds, salmon, lobsters and sea turtles—are known to navigate using the magnetic field lines that stretch from Earth's north to south pole.