Canada Pledges to Work With US Over Competing Claims to Arctic Sea Floor

Ice is broken up by the passing of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sails through the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska in a file photo on July 16, 2017. The Canadian Press/AP/David Goldman

The federal government is pledging to work with its American counterparts after the U.S. claimed parts of the Arctic sea floor that Canada also wants.

The U.S. filed its claim last month with the United Nations agency that evaluates such requests.