Humans pump so much #groundwater that #Earth’s #axis has shifted, #study finds
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/26/world/pumping-groundwater-earth-axis-shifting-scn/index.html
Between 1993 and 2010, the period examined in the study, humans extracted more than 2,150 gigatons of groundwater from inside Earth, mostly in western North #America and northwestern #India, according to estimates published in 2010. To put that into perspective, if that amount were poured into the #ocean, it would raise global sea levels by about 0.24 inches (6 millimeters).
