Groundwater pumped up from the earth and moved elsewhere to quench the thirst of humans and their activities resulted in the earth’s axis tilting nearly 80 cm to the east, a new study has found.
The same study also found that nearly 2,150 billion tonnes of groundwater has been pumped and drained into the oceans in 1993-2010, making it one of the important contributors to global sea-level rise.
The earth’s rotational pole is the point along which the planet rotates. This point, which lies on the axis of rotation of the planet, moves in a process called polar motion. In other words, the location of the earth’s pole varies relative to the earth’s crust.
