Studies have shown that the Earth's rotation axis has shifted due to the decrease in glaciers caused by climate change.
Researchers at the Earth Science Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that the Earth's rotation axis shifted 3.28 milliseconds to 26 degrees east longitude compared to the 1990s.
The researchers pointed to the fact that climate change caused the glaciers to melt on a large scale and flow down into the sea.
Glaciers have melted hundreds of billions of tons each year since the 1990s, and because of this, the axis of rotation has shifted as the mass distribution across the planet has changed.
The researchers analyzed that mankind's use of groundwater was also a factor that influenced the change in the rotation axis.
In the last 50 years, humans have used 18 trillion tons of groundwater for drinking and agriculture, most of which has flowed to the sea and redistributed the entire mass of the earth.
However, experts said that the rotation of the shaft is not large enough to affect daily life.
The results of this study were announced in the'Geophysics Research Bulletin' on the 22nd of last month.
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