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Environment
Pol Allingham

Massive Groundwater Pumping Alters Earth’s Rotation, Study Shows

(Photo by NASA on Unsplash)

The Earth really has moved because we have pumped so much water from the ground.

Scientists have discovered groundwater pumps tilted the planet 80 centimeters (2.62 feet) east between 1993 and 2010 alone.

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