[Rockhounds] The north magnetic pole is leaving Canada for Siberia.

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

The north magnetic pole is lurching away from its traditional home in the
Canadian Arctic and toward Siberia because of a fierce tug-of-war battle
being waged by two giant blobs hiding deep underground, at the core–mantle
boundary, a new study finds.

These blobs, areas of negative magnetic flow under Canada and Siberia, are
in a winners-take-all struggle. Already, as these blobs change shape
and *magnetic
intensity* <https://www.livescience.com/38059-magnetism.html>, a victor has
emerged; from 1999 to 2019, while the blob beneath Canada weakened, the
blob under Siberia slightly intensified, the researchers found. "Together,
these changes caused the north magnetic pole to travel towards Siberia,"
the researchers wrote in the study.

"We've never seen anything like this before," study lead researcher Phil
Livermore, an associate professor of geophysics at the University of Leeds
in the United Kingdom, told Live Science in an email.

https://www.livescience.com/magnetic-north-pole-to-siberia.html