The Trump administration is eying the possibility of oil leasing in Arctic Ocean areas more than 200 miles from shore, an ...

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

The extended continental shelf ends 350 nautical miles (NM ... Pole at a depth of 4,300 meters below the surface of the Arctic Ocean, setting off a rush to stake out claims to the seabed.

This represents some 385,000 square miles of seabed in the Pacific, Atlantic, Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean to an “extended continental shelf”. The majority is off the coast of Alaska ...

The near-bottom water on the U.S. Northeast continental shelf provides a critical cold-water habitat for the rich regional ...

Up until recently, millions of acres of open ocean were protected ... North Bering Sea through a 1953 law called the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. This law allows presidents to decide ...

TASS/. Russia's geological prospecting and exploration holding company, Rosgeo, begins another stage of research on the outer boundary of the Russian continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean ...

Specialists of the Russian Defense Ministry made a high-precision bathymetric map, which will be attached to the country’s claim for the continental shelf’s borders in the Arctic Ocean ...

Petrie, Freshwater Fluxes via Pacific and Arctic Outflows across the Canadian Polar Shelf ... of the Arctic Ocean's lower halocline by upwelling and diapycnal mixing over the continental margin ...

The Trump administration is eying the possibility of oil leasing in Arctic Ocean areas more than 200 miles from shore, an area where U.S. territorial rights are unclear. Information about the ...

An Arctic "fogbow” is seen from the deck of the Coast Guard cutter Healy during the 2016 Hidden Ocean mission to the Chukchi Borderland. (photo provided by Caitlin Bailey/Global Foundation for ...