researchers used more than 120 years of data decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and days. Days on Earth are growing slightly and that change is accelerating. The reason is to the same mechanisms that also have the planet’s axis to meander by about 30 feet meters) in the past 120 years. The findings come two recent NASA-funded studies focused on how climate-related redistribution of ice and water has Earth’s rotation. recent decades, the faster melting of ice sheets has mass from the poles toward the equatorial This redistribution occurs when ice sheets and melt more than they grow from snowfall and aquifers lose more groundwater than replenishes. These resulting shifts in mass the planet to wobble as it spins and its axis to location — a phenomenon called polar motion. also cause Earth’s rotation to slow, measured by lengthening of the day. Both have been recorded 1900. This flattening causes Earth to decelerate the day to lengthen, similar to when an ice skater and spreads their arms to slow a spin. solar flares, and associated coronal mass can bombard Earth’s outermost atmosphere tremendous amounts of energy, most of that is reflected back into space by the Earth’s field. While the energy doesn't decisively earth's rotation and axis, it causes heating and of the thermosphere, disrupts radio and affects satellites and power grids. or the northern and southern lights, are also a result of these interactions. Hence, Both II and Statement III are correct but only one them explains Statement I.