elevation

In voting to abandon the road elevation project, the supervisors directed county staff to immediately begin developing plans to reroute the road and to approach — and potentially negotiate with — land owners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

His successor’s government would hardly welcome, let alone support, his elevation to the world’s highest diplomatic office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Analyst Laura Sutcliffe says Naylor’s elevation to chair cements a senior leadership bench with experience across all of CSL’s key commercial areas and competencies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

That includes the Cote de Meltham, which is 3.2km long at an average elevation of 8.4%.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

There were no objections to C.P.’s elevation at the next meeting and so he donned the scarlet robe and repeated the sacred oath of leadership.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Sequoias natively are found in small patches in California’s Northern Sierra mountains, typically at elevations greater than 5,000 feet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

By September, snow had disappeared even at elevations of 3,500 meters, exposing glacier ice that would normally remain protected beneath a layer of snow.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

One of the most ominous findings is what researchers observed at measurement sites at the highest elevations, where temperatures are lowest and glaciers are typically snow-covered.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

But if no snow survives the summer, it cannot replace the ice lost to melting at lower, warmer elevations.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Brahe’s observatory: the curved scale is a quadrant for measuring elevations that is built into the wall; inside it is a trompe I’oeil section of Brahe’s observatory, with a giant figure of Brahe himself.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton