A larger shelf means legal access to more of the ocean floor’s riches: animals, hydrocarbons, and, perhaps most important, ...

Lack of surveillance (recon assets) to patrol infrastructure and fishing grounds. The Coast Guard needs more sea eyes.

Alaska’s Arctic Ocean shores had been known to hold oil in some capacity since the 1800s. Native Alaskans would cut blocks of tundra to use as fuel for heat, as the frozen grass was soaked with ...

When one reads about the exploits of the World War II-era Gato -class United States Navy submarine, USS Barb (SS-220 ), one ...

Our world has been shaped by two all-consuming conflicts - and by a global superpower stand-off that brought the world to the brink of destruction. Explore the in-depth sections below.