The redistribution of groundwater tilted Earth’s rotational axis east by more than 31 inches (78.7 centimeters) in just under two decades, according to the models.

Earth tilted 31.5 inches, a study finds. So whose fault is that? Humans, of course. The pumping of groundwater could affect the climate and make sea levels rise, according to a study.

And we've been extracting so much groundwater that it caused the Earth's rotational pole to drift 78.48 cm toward 64.16 degrees east at a rate of about 4.36 cm per year from 1993 to 2010, ...

Drift of Earth's Pole Confirms Groundwater Depletion as a Significant Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise 1993–2010. Geophysical Research Letters, 2023; 50 (12) DOI: 10.1029/2023GL103509; ...

Scientists knew the planet’s centerline could move. But it took a sharp turn sometime around the start of the 2000s. By Raymond Zhong Around the turn of the millennium, Earth’s spin started ...

Ever wondered if human ingenuity could literally shift our planet? Turns out, it can – albeit ever so slightly.

Rampant removal of groundwater for drinking and irrigation has altered the distribution of water on Earth enough to shift the planet’s tilt, according to a sweeping new study.The finding ...

In an interview, Knight, a professor of geophysics at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, said that if groundwater levels were stabilized now in the study area, subsidence ...

The redistribution of groundwater tilted Earth’s rotational axis east by more than 31 inches (78.7 centimeters) in just under two decades, according to the models.

Humans’ unquenchable thirst for groundwater has sucked so much liquid from subsurface reserves that it’s affecting Earth’s tilt, according to a new study.