{"id":"10f69865-05c1-4ce1-9dc7-8b397dd94371","url":"https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change-is-literally-altering-the-shape-of-our-planet","domain":"livescience.com","outlet":{"name":"Live Science","country":"US","cred":3,"lean":0,"curated":true},"title":"Climate change is literally altering the shape of our planet","plainHeadline":"Earth is getting rounder due to polar ice melt, study finds","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["New research shows Earth’s shape is rounding faster due to polar ice melt.","Poles are rising and the equator's bulge is shrinking by about 1 mm per year between 2011 and 2015.","Overall, solid Earth rounding accelerates by roughly 0.4 mm per year each decade.","Ocean mass shift toward the equator counteracts solid Earth rounding, making net flattening occur.","GNSS data and gravity measurements are used together to track changes in Earth’s shape."],"topics":["Science","Environment"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-10-22T10:00:00.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-10-22T10:35:48.928Z","story":"https://brief.concise.news/story/fbc1aa2e-467b-4cd6-8af2-ca9f5fa129f4","storyId":"fbc1aa2e-467b-4cd6-8af2-ca9f5fa129f4","image":"https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4e47MYend7KYaEShvnXaQG-1920-80.jpg","author":"Stephanie Pappas","dek":"The melting of the poles is increasingly shifting Earth's shape at a faster rate, with the planet becoming more and more round."}