For more than a decade, survey flights have crisscrossed the United States using gravity instruments to calculate a new sea level in an effort that will save the country billions of dollars on ...

iPhones made in 2014+ have a barometer for real-time elevation tracking. A barometer measures air pressure, which is crucial for calculating altitude changes. The native iPhone Compass app has a built ...

If you've ever wondered what the elevation of your location is, you can find out with Google Maps on both desktop and mobile.

Every summer you go down the shore, but lately you’ve begun to notice that the beach seems narrower each time you visit. Is that the sea level rising, or is the sand just being swept away? Speaking of ...

“The snow level has gone from the surface along the Oregon and southwest Washington Coastline to 1000 feet each morning,” Storm Tracker 2 Meteorologist Rhonda Shelby said. The higher up you go into ...

CHICAGO--A Field Museum scientist has developed a novel way to determine land elevation as continents moved around the Earth through geological ages. Knowing how high mountains and plateaus were in ...

Meteorologists have been talking about elevation-based snowfall all week. WEATHER | Latest Storm Tracker 2 Forecast “The snow ...