Polar ice loss warps the shape of Earth

When we think of our planet Earth, we like to think of it as a solid object that we can’t really mess up. Unfortunately, the Earth is neither solid, nor too large for us humans to be able to change.

Fun Fact: When the massive Three Gorges Dam in China was filled with water, it actually slowed the Earth’s rotation down by changing the planet’s distribution of mass. The change was only a fraction of a microsecond, but… Every time we change the distribution of water on the planet’s surface, we change how the planet rotates. We also change how the crust of the…