Those disputes were over land, but more recently the focus has turned to claims over the continental shelf (the area of seabed that extends beyond the coast to at least 200 nautical miles) and the ...

The so-called Extended Continental Shelf covers about 1 million square kilometers (386,100 square miles), predominantly in the Arctic and Bering Sea, an area of increasing strategic importance ...

Sheinbaum said the renaming is “incorrect,” adding that Trump’s decree “only changed the name within his own continental shelf, which extends 22 nautical miles from the US coast—not the ...

Predicting storm surge is complex because it is sensitive to the slightest changes in any of the factors listed earlier. The width and slope of the continental shelf leading up to the coast is one ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum accused Google on Monday of violating the country’s sovereignty, leaving open the possibility of a lawsuit over the tech company labeling the Gulf of Mexico ...

The U-shaped “nine-dash line” is used on Chinese maps to illustrate its claims over vast areas of the South China Sea, including swathes of what Vietnam considers its continental shelf, ...

Mexico has argued that the Gulf of America label should only apply to the part over the U.S. continental shelf. The U.S. has control over about 46% of the gulf, Mexico controls about 49% and Cuba ...

A map of Canada’s 2022 addendum to its continental shelf claim filed on Dec. 19. (Government of Canada) Canada filed an addendum on Monday to extend its continental shelf in the Arctic, ...

Both presidents used their authority under Section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), 43 U.S.C. § 1341(a), to “withdraw from disposition any of the unleased lands of the ...

Keywords environmental assessment, Alaska, continental shelf, offshore drilling, pollution prevention, geological features, wildlife behavior, coastal ecosystems, advanced technology, baseline ...

Sognnes said if Norway does open its continental shelf, Loke would not begin mining until early in the 2030s. He said it would first be necessary to map and explore the seabed and develop the best ...