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People pumping water has changed the Earth’s center of gravity

By Asher Notheis
Published June 17, 2023 3:21pm ET
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People pumping water has changed the Earth’s center of gravity
This image provided by NASA Data from six orbits of the Suomi-NPP spacecraft on April 9, 2015 have been assembled into this perspective composite of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans. Tropical Cyclone Joalane is seen over the Indian Ocean. The image was created by the Ocean Biology Processing Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. | (NASA via AP)


The Earth has drifted almost an entire yard over the course of 17 years due to people pumping water to the planet’s surface, according to a new study.

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