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Perhaps it's only
who are aware of the
of underground reservoirs on maintaining Earth's balance. Geophysicist Ki-Weon Seo from Seoul National University has discovered that
have extracted so much groundwater from under our
that they have changed the
of Earth's axis. This shift has been
enough to physically relocate the
North Pole. The mass of polar
is drifting by 4.36 centimetres a year. Professor Seo calculated that we extracted more than two trillion
of groundwater between 1993 and 2010, causing Earth to wobble. Seo added that the pumping of groundwater has caused sea
to rise by 6.24 millimetres.
