The continental shelf: geological, legal, or geopolitical?
With Shell receiving conditional approval to drill in the Chukchi Sea in offshore Alaska, the phrase “continental shelf” has come up…
Russia discovers a new island in its Arctic
In September 2013, two military helicopter pilots transporting equipment from Tiksi, a port city in northeast Russia, to the New Siberian Islands spotted…
Full steam ahead for Asian icebreakers this summer
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) governs many of the activities on and below the…