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EPISODE · Jul 18, 2025 · 3 MIN

The North Pole Moved Three Feet Because Of Dams

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

A Harvard study finds that the thousands of dams humans have built over the last couple centuries have locked up so much water it's actually affected Earth's poles! We'll try to explain. Plus: starting today in Michigan City, Indiana, it’s the Singing Sands Sand Sculpting Festival. Water storage in dams has caused minute shifts in Earth’s poles (Harvard's Advancing Earth and Space Sciences) The Singing Sands Sand Sculpting Festival It would be a dam shame if you didn’t back our show on Patreon

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