sea level

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Sixty miles from Julian, I turn onto Bannister Road and bump north along a gravel track for three miles into the basin, to a parking lot 164 feet below sea level.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Last year, the global mean sea level was around 11 centimetres higher than when satellite altimetry records began in 1993.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

South Africa, at Johannesburg's Ellis Park - 1,753m above sea level - is England's next, imposing task.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

Between 1901 and 2018, the global average sea level rose by about 20 centimetres.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

A forlorn plateau of bulletproof ice and windswept boulders 26,000 feet above sea level, it occupies a broad notch between the upper ramparts of Lhotse and Everest.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer