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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/chrisdh79 on 2025-07-11 13:04:52+00:00.

Original Title: Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth’s poles slightly away from the planet’s axis of rotation | The construction of nearly 7,000 dams from 1835 to 2011 shifted the poles about a meter in total and caused a 21-millimeter drop in global sea levels.