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• The planet’s axis has drifted at the rate of 4.36 cm per year towards the east.
• It was carried out by
  • Ki-Weon Seo, Taewhan Jeon, Jae-Seung Kim, Kookhyoun Youm of the Seoul National University (South Korea),
  • Dongryeol Ryu of the University of Melbourne (Australia),
  • Jooyoung Eom of the Kyungpook National University (South Korea),
  • Jianli Chen of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong),
  • Clark R Wilson of the University of Texas at Austin (USA).

Rest all details and question could be found at -

https://www.iasgyan.in/daily-current-affairs/effect-of-groundwater-extraction-on-earth-tilt

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-climate/groundwater-extraction-shifted-earths-axis-study-8692912/

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