Maps matter because ... near shore—not subject to continental shelf claims because it is within the 200 nautical miles nations already control. The race for the Arctic may be about oil, but ...

Though it had little scientific significance, the stunt infuriated other Arctic nations and kicked the international rush to map out claims ... called the “extended continental shelf ...

The Continental Divide defines the watersheds that drain into the Pacific and Atlantic (and the Arctic). Rain that falls west of the ... set of annotated and highly entertaining printed maps starting ...

All the maps are based on quantitative geophysical or topographic information: paleomagnetic pole positions, ocean floor magnetic anomalies, and best fits of the continental margins. Cylindrical ...

The sea ice that blankets the Arctic Ocean isn’t the unbroken white mantle depicted in maps. It’s a jigsaw ... have suggested that people in the continental United States already may be ...

Despite the danger, the Arctic has no mandatory requirements for those operating in or passing through the region. The continental shelf is a particular point of contention. Russia claims that ...

Whereas the Arctic Region is the natural home for ... Add the different types of Penguin to a map of the continent, talking about how they need to live near the coast for food.

He pointed out that claims to an extended offshore continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean have become a ... which contained a new extended map of the continental shelf over which Washington is ...

The findings, published Friday in Nature Geoscience, based on a meticulous analysis of Landsat images from 1986 to 2021, show ...

Super storms are in the news. Hurricanes, a polar vortex and record-breaking heat. These weather phenomena are not only bad ...