The announcement shows just how shrewdly the U.S. has gamed the international system. Since 1982, a United Nations agreement called the Law of the Sea has served as the cornerstone of the global ...

Elder. Map of the Bering Sea, showing the extensive shallow shelf and deep basin. Click image for a larger view. The eastern Bering Sea shelf supports a diverse, abundant and highly productive ...

For now, the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf—one of Antarctica's biggest, extending over the Weddell Sea—appears to be relatively stable, thanks to near-freezing currents circulating over the ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? When you purchase through links on ...

and continental shelf, in violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The Philippines also argues that Scarborough Shoal is defined as rocks under UNCLOS ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 58, No. 2 (2013), pp. 505-524 (20 pages) Connectivity within marine species plays a fundamental role in population dynamics, genetic diversity, spread of disease, and ...