Abrupt sea level rise and Earth's gradual pole shift reveal permanent hydrological regime changes in the 21st century.

Summary: The Earth is getting warmer, and it is changing how water moves around our planet. Between the years 2000 and 2002, the ground lost a massive amount of water—much more than the ice lost from Greenland! This huge loss of soil moisture actually caused the sea level to rise and even made the Earth's North Pole shift a little bit. Because there is less rain but the same amount of water evaporating, the ground is drying up. Scientists say this lost water has not come back, and it probably won't anytime soon.