The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which Chile is a State Party since 1997, contains two concepts of continental shelf: the “scientific continental shelf”, which ...

Biden’s planned executive order will invoke the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a law that gives presidents broad authority to withdraw federal waters from future oil and gas leasing and ...

Newly confirmed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued his first orders Tuesday to implement President Donald Trump’s declared ...

President Trump directed the Treasury Department to freeze new offshore wind leases on the outer continental shelf Monday evening as one of a flurry of executive orders he signed within hours of ...

As per the ICJ's decision, Nicaragua cannot extend its continental shelf beyond the 200 nautical miles that delimit its maritime border with Colombia, it was explained. The area is said to be rich ...

FRIS is protected by thick ice and near-freezing seawater flowing over the underwater continental shelf that rings the coast of Antarctica in the Weddell Sea. However, in the summer, warmer water ...