Here are answers to three questions about the High Arctic. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, an arm of the Interior ...

The ocean has many treasures. The biggest treasure of all time was just found at the bottom of the ocean, and now President ...

Over 150 years ago, in 1867, the United States acquired Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Since then, it has not expanded ...

Greenland lies across the most direct routes from Russia to the populous east coast of the US, and is the closest territory ...

There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.

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It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...

Autonomous robotic organizations (AROs) are transforming ocean research and offshore work by coordinating drones, satellites, ...

The U.S. gained that seabed territory beyond 200 nautical miles ... are aboard seafloor mapping missions around the world, from Arctic Greenland to the South Pacific to the nearby Gulf of Maine ...