Articles for tag: Climate Change, Earth Science, Environmental Science, Geophysics, Hydrology

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Storing Water in Dams Has Literally Shifted Earth’s Axis, Scientists Find

Suhail Ahmed

New research confirms that the huge amounts of water stored behind dams have not only changed sea levels but also the planet’s axis of rotation. This shocking discovery shows how much humans have affected the Earth’s geophysical processes. A study in Geophysical Research Letters says that building dams over the past 200 years has caused ...

Urban Sinkholes in the Making? Satellite Data Reveals Shocking Truth About U.S. Cities

Jan Otte

Under the skyscrapers and crowded streets of America’s biggest cities lies a hidden crisis. New satellite studies show that big cities from New York to Houston are subsiding at a catastrophic rate, threatening thousands of buildings and essential infrastructure. Guilty parties? Over-extraction of groundwater, the force of heavy urbanization, and even prehistoric shifts in the ...