“Argentina will not exercise these rights over territories and maritime spaces which the United Kingdom is administrating unilaterally since 1833”, said Foradori. The twenty year effort took off under ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of Vietnam filed a claim to the UN’s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) to extend the limits of its underwater continental shelf in the ...

A United Nations commission has ruled that Australia can expand its continental shelf by 2.5 million square kilometres. The UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf made the ruling after ...

With Shell receiving conditional approval to drill in the Chukchi Sea in offshore Alaska, the phrase “continental shelf” has come up a lot lately. The term also appears whenever territorial disputes ...

Canada plans to submit its Arctic continental shelf claim in 2018 and it is expected to include the North Pole, overlapping with both Russian and Danish submissions that also claim ownership of the ...

China has rejected a move by the Philippines to seek UN approval to extend its continental shelf in the South China Sea and secure “exclusive” rights to exploit undersea resources, state media ...

A recent expedition off Ireland’s continental shelf has revealed a truly enormous submarine canyon the depth of 10 Eiffel Towers. With nearly all of the world’s landmasses mapped in minute detail by ...

On April 16, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case that raises familiar questions of federalism and statutory interpretation as applied in an unusual setting, to a platform anchored to the ...