latitude

This fixes the Greenland-Africa size issue, allowing those who use it to get a sense of the comparative size of different landmasses, all while preserving straight lines of longitude and latitude.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

The researchers also had to account for subtle changes caused by the positions of the sun and the moon, as well as differences in terrain, latitude, and elevation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

The new analysis adds another dimension by examining how density varies horizontally across latitude and longitude, revealing more of the thermosphere's geographic structure.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

They calculated latitude from the angle of the sun’s rays and tested the ocean’s depth with lead weights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

In contrast, crops and animals moved easily between Eurasian societies thousands of miles apart but at the same latitude and sharing similar climates and day lengths.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

"We found loss-of-function mutations in certain genes that regulate circadian rhythms, suggesting they may have adapted to the extreme light cycles of summers and winters in northern latitudes."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

However, studies have shown that higher latitudes, particularly in the northern hemisphere, will see the biggest increases in favourable conditions for storms to form, and those that do may be more violent.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

When the new system becomes official in the next year, latitudes, longitudes and elevations across the country will change by as much as 13 feet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

When these materials slam into Earth's magnetic shield, they can knock out satellites, threaten astronauts -- and create colourful auroras in the skies of northern and southern latitudes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Its east—west major axis permitted many inventions adopted in one part of Eurasia to spread relatively rapidly to societies at similar latitudes and climates elsewhere in Eurasia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond