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Climate change caused Earth's axis to meander 10 metres in 120 years: Studies

Melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas, a result of climate change, have also led to the Earth`s axis to meander 10 metres in the last 120 years

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Two NASA-funded studies have shown that melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas, a result of climate change, has also led to the Earth`s axis to meander 10 metres in the last 120 years.

In the first study, published in Nature Geoscience, researchers analysed polar motion across 12 decades.

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