How Humans Are Changing How the Earth Rotates

Aswe get older, we learn that many of the “simple” things we learned in elementary school are more complex. The Earth is round, but it’s not perfectly round. Our north pole, the point around which the planet spins, isn’t perfectly at the northernmost point on the planet. And a day isn’t quite 24 hours; that’s why we have leap years. And, while humans can’t spin the planet like Superman, our activities, today, are altering the way that it turns. Specifically, we’ve moved around too much water. We’ve pulled water away from the poles and out of the center of the Earth, adding it to the oceans and the surface. As a result, our planet’s axis is moving. And it’s probably going to keep moving further away from its original point, without any easy way for us to move it back. <a href="https://medium.com/a-microbiome-scientist-at-large/how-humans-are-changing-how-the-earth-rotates-8922c3455652">Visit Now</a>