Has The Earth Tilted Recently 2024 Calendar. The earth’s axis of rotation is shifting due to climate change and movements in the earth’s interior. Humans pumped and displaced so much groundwater in just two decades that we shifted the tilt of earth's axis, new research suggests.
But now—thanks to a new study published in the journal geophysical research letters—we can see that, in less than two decades, earth has tilted 31.5 inches as a result of pumping groundwater. A day is one full earth rotation on its axis.