In December 2023, the United States unilaterally announced a claim to a huge chunk of seabed well outside its internationally-recognized boundaries off the northern coast of Alaska. Does the US have the resources to enforce its claim? And how do its capabilities stack up against those of other major maritime powers? Sputnik explores.
A small but high-profile Extinction Rebellion protest met the Cape Town return of a controversial Russian oil and gas seismic ship on Monday while the Democratic Alliance's Member of Parliament Dave Bryant said that 'rolling out the red carpet for these ships' is 'helping to prop up the Putin.
In the first public rebuke of Russian ‘exploration activities’ by a senior figure long active within Antarctic diplomacy, the American lawyer James Barnes says a Kremlin oil and gas seismic vessel set to arrive in Cape Town on Monday is ‘violating’ the mining ban he fought to introduce. ‘All’ A.
Seismic blasting: With a fleet of Kremlin icebreakers set to dock in Cape Town, the ‘ANC must come clean’ on its business in the frozen south, says DA.