Groundwater extraction tilting Earth's spin, may fuel climate change: Report
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Humans have pumped so much water out of the ground that Earth has tilted nearly 80cm east between 1993 and 2010, according to a study published in Geophysical Research Letters, the journal of the American Geophysical Union. Scientists earlier estimated that 2,150 gigatons of groundwater, the equivalent of a quarter-inch of sea level rise, have been pumped in the said period.