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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are about 330 million cubic miles of water in the world oceans today, 97% of all the water on the planet. Early in our planet’s 4.5 billion year history, water from the atmosphere and from the ...

Kate Dignan has summited one 14er — she thinks it was probably Longs Peak, but she’s done her best to forget the experience. That trip, and countless photos from hikers around the state, got her ...

A portable optical lattice clock on a trailer has been used to measure elevation deep inside a mountain near the France-Italy border. Although this elevation measurement is not as precise as ...

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 the past ...

The Ziplevel Pro-2000 High Precision Altimeter is a precise pressurized hydrostatic altimeter that can replace laser levels on job sites. One person working alone can set up in minutes to level and ...

“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 ...

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