Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

A new multiyear offshore program, to be unveiled soon, will include a reconfigured Arctic area where future lease sales will ...

The National Association of Manufacturers sent 10 federal agencies details on 44 regulations it recommends President Donald Trump should revise or rescind.

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Only five nations can assert an entitlement to an extended continental shelf into the Arctic—Canada ... prize above all is the possibility of new sea routes opening up for commercial purposes.

Escalating tensions in the Arctic over untapped resources and territorial claims raise concerns of potential conflict.

The continental shelf is a particular point of contention. Russia claims that deep underwater ridges on the sea floor ... traffic separation scheme in the Bering Strait, where chances for a ...

The Bering Sea was low for much of the season so it was its growth during March, close to average conditions, that became a primary contributor to the total Arctic sea ice extent. The dramatic ...

It will feature new additions, including a 28-day “Alaska Arctic Circle Solstice” cruise aboard Westerdam that crosses into the Bering Sea and Arctic Circle during the summer solstice.

President Biden withdrew capacious tracts of the OCS in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of America (“Gulf”) (f/k/a Gulf of Mexico), the Pacific Ocean, and the OCS in the Bering Sea off of the coast ...

Only the East Greenland Sea had near-average extent through the winter. The Bering Sea ice extent was low for much of the season, but growth from late February through late March brought the region ...