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Humans Have Shifted Earth's Rotation, Scientists Discover. Here's How.
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Humans Have Shifted Earth's Rotation, Scientists Discover. Here's How.
🌘Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Humans may be tiny compared to the immensity of Earth, but our activity can alter its dynamics on a planetary scale—for good and ill. Scientists have even discovered that Earth’s rotation has shifted due to our influence.According to a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters, humans have pull…
Since the 19th century, humans have built close to 7,000 dams, holding enough water to fill the Grand Canyon twice. These infrastructures, by moving huge liquid masses,...
Cambridge, July 23, 2025 – Total News Agency-TNA – A new study led by Harvard University geophysicists concludes that the accumulation of water in dams constructed by humans has caused the displacement of the Earth's axis of rotation by more than one metre over the last two centuries. The research, published in the specialized journal Geophysical Research Letters, argues that this massive redistribution of water also caused a slight drop in the …
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