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Rampant Groundwater Pumping Has Changed the Tilt of Earth’s Axis
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scientificamerican.com/article <-- shared technical article
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doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103509 <-- shared paper
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“ • Earth's pole has drifted toward 64.16°E at a speed of 4.36 cm/yr during 1993–2010 due to groundwater depletion and resulting sea level rise

• Including groundwater depletion effects, the estimated drift of Earth's rotational pole agrees remarkably well with observations…”
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