Groundwater levels on the Indian subcontinent have been so badly depleted by climate change, intensive irrigation and population growth that it has caused the Earth to tilt on its axis, new research shows.
The “polar rotation” of the planet – as the Earth spins on an axis topped and tailed by the North and South poles – has been shifting in recent decades due to the melting of the giant ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.
This has significantly changed the distribution of the world’s mass as the melted ice flows into the oceans.

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