Hoping to keep tabs on the magnetic north's wandering ways, the World Magnetic Model 2025 has been released this week, revealing the latest official predicted placement of Earth's magnetic fields.

The weight of water locked up in the world’s approximately 7,000 dams is enough to not only fill the Grand Canyon twice, but has likely shifted the North and South poles by about a metre and lowered ...

This image shows magnetic declination, or the angle between magnetic and geographic north, according to the World Magnetic Model released in 2025. Red is magnetic north to the east of geographic ...

NOAA officials announced today the World Magnetic Model (WMM), a representation of Earth’s large-scale magnetic field and… Thursday, June 5, 2025.

The World Magnetic Model The WMM is a map of the Earth's magnetic field. The movement of the Magnetic North Pole is so significant because all navigation that relied on magnetic field data must be ...

In a new report from NOAA, the “World Magnetic Model” for 2020 is revealed, and it shows that the pole is speeding toward northern Russia. That trend, however, is expected to change.

Earth's magnetic poles are shifting faster due to outer core fluid motions. This rapid change affects navigation systems, prompting updates to models like the World Magnetic Model.

The latest version of the World Magnetic Model (WMM), one of the key tools developed to model the change in Earth's magnetic field, has been released. Developed by NCEI and ...

Scientists map and track Earth's magnetic field using something called the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which was jointly developed by the British Geological Survey and the National Centers for ...

Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

(CNN) — If you are using your smartphone to navigate, your system just got a crucial update. Scientists have released a new model tracking the position of the magnetic north pole, revealing that ...