A graduate student ran nearly 7,000 reservoirs through one model instead of the single famous dam above Yichang, and found the water behind all of them has walked the north pole 44 inches

The world’s reservoirs, counted together, hold enough water to fill the Grand Canyon twice. From the bank at Yichang in central China, the most famous of them looks like a still inland sea stretching past the horizon. What nobody standing there can feel is that the water is tugging at the planet’s own axis of ... Read more