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Humans have pumped so much groundwater that we’ve shifted Earth’s axis. A new study shows that groundwater extraction for irrigation and other uses has changed the distribution of mass on the planet. This has caused the Earth’s axis to drift by about 3.5 centimetres since 2005.

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