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

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

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

Hektoria sat on what scientists call an ice plain, a flat stretch of bedrock below sea level.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026

Hence those seas became dry land during the Ice Ages, when much ocean water was locked up in glaciers and sea level lay at about 500 feet below its present stand.

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