Under Sea, Under Stone

How The U.S. Claimed Vast New Arctic Territory — In An Unusual Way

By Mike Eckel, Wojtek Grojec, and Ivan Gutterman (Eckel is alumnus of The Fletcher School and Senior News Correspondent)

As competition for resources in the Arctic Ocean intensifies, nations are staking claims to swaths of undersea territory where oil, gas, and other minerals could someday be found and mined. The United States has just staked its own claim — and it did so in a way that’s raising lots of questions.

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(This post is republished from RFERL.)