SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For decades, researchers from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena have been studying melting glaciers from sea level to space. Recently launched satellites, like the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It is a measurement at the center of concern and anxiety over climate change, a slow-moving threat marking the insidious danger posed by the ocean, which surrounds Staten Island ...

Measuring mean sea level is not only an invaluable tool for pilotage, navigation, aeronautics, cartography, sea charting, and geology, it’s also a fundamentally important metric for measuring possible ...

A satellite scheduled to launch from California later this month will measure sea level rise and provide other crucial data to scientists who study how global warming is affecting the Earth's oceans.

As the planet warms, the increase in sea levels threatens to uproot more than a third of the world’s population. Understanding exactly how fast and by how much they’re rising is crucial information ...

For the first time, NASA has the tools and expertise to understand the rate at which sea level is changing, some of the mechanisms that drive those changes and the effects that sea level change may ...

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 ...

Sea level has only been measured accurately since the early 1800s, when the US first began to systematically survey its coastline. This was originally done with a simple measuring stick to gauge the ...

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

In this animation a radar pulse bounces between the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite and the sea surface, collecting data on the height of the ocean. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A satellite ...