The U.S. successfully claimed another one million square kilometers beneath the ocean, expanding its extended continental ...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines filed a claim with the U.N. on Saturday to an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a waterway where it has had increasingly confrontational ...

CIRES researchers help map one million square kilometers of new U.S. seafloor in historic project The United States has established sovereign rights over an additional one million square kilometers of ...

America quietly grew 386,000 square miles bigger last month - nearly twice the size of Spain. The US Department of State (DOS) added six regions' submerged offshore areas, or extended continental ...

A close analysis of Jakarta’s Extended Continental Shelf submissions reveals a flexible and strategic approach to its maritime borders. Under Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of ...

The US’s extended continental shelf was announced by the Department of State in December (Pictures: US Department of State/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/SWNS) The United States got ...

On June 16, 2008, Indonesia made a submission to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) regarding its claim to continental shelf rights beyond 200 nautical miles of its coast.

The Obama Administration is pushing for accession to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which would expose the United States to baseless environmental lawsuits, including suits based ...

The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam has filed a claim with the United ...

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has filed a claim with the United Nations for an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a month after regional neighbor the Philippines made a similar move, ...