Chinese study: climate change pushed the Earth off its axis

Beijing-Sana

A new study conducted by researchers from the Chinese Institute of Geosciences and Natural Resources Research revealed that the melting of glaciers as a result of climate change is causing the Earth to move away from its axis.

According to the American "New York Times", researchers explained that ocean currents, pumping groundwater and melting glaciers caused the North and South Poles to move about 13 feet from their place from 1980 until the 1990s.

The researchers showed that the accelerating decline in ground water storage resulting from melting ice was the main driver of the rapid polar drift towards the east after the 1990s.

They noted that they discovered that the poles moved from south to east in the mid-1990s and that the velocity of erosion between 1995 and 2020 was 17 times higher than it was between 1981 and 1995.