Escalating tensions in the Arctic over untapped resources and territorial claims raise concerns of potential conflict.

As competition for resources in the Arctic Ocean intensifies, nations are staking claims to swaths of undersea ... countries to collect evidence, make a territorial claim, and have the claim ...

It connects to the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait ... been at the frontline of China’s efforts to assert its territorial claims in disputed waters in the South China Sea.

The majority is off the coast of Alaska, and follows after Russia expanded its own demands for territorial recognition in Arctic waters ... American maritime claims. In the absence of the US ...