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Scientists say Earth’s pole shifted 31.5 inches after humans extracted 2,150 gigatons of groundwater
Pumping huge amounts of groundwater does more than affect local water supplies. According to a 2023 study, groundwater ...
Can we fix it back?
Human extraction of groundwater is not just drying aquifers but quietly altering Earth’s rotation, with implications for ...
The Earth's axis shifted by approximately 31.5 inches between 1993 and 2010 due to excessive groundwater extraction.
New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift more than a meter. Reading time 2 minutes Humans have built so many dams ...
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