The draft five - year plan that has just been released by the Trump Administration's Interior Department would open up 25 of 26 outer continental shelf regions to drilling. (news.mongabay.com)
Using echosounders installed on the hull of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Nancy Foster, the science team mapped canyons and shelf regions at high resolution over more than 380 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) of seafloor from south of Cape Hatteras to Baltimore Canyon, which runs from offshore North Carolina to the eastern tip of Long Island. (scientificamerican.com)
Only the shallow and potentially methane ‐ rich [Shakhova et al., 2010] shelf regions in the Laptev Sea show significant annual variations....» (realclimate.org)