According to Northwestern University, a combination of severe drought and decreasing water levels is threatening to disrupt ...

The vital commercial artery depends on a supply of fresh water to move ships between the two oceans. Drought conditions that were once rare could become common by the end of the century, greatly ...

A boat moves along the Chagres River, feeding into Gatún Lake. Credit: Katja Schulz In 2023, Panama experienced one of the worst droughts in its ...

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The Panama Canal is one of the most important waterways in the world, with about 7% of global trade passing through. It also relies heavily on rainfall. Without enough freshwater flowing in, the canal ...

A vital waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Panama Canal relies on fresh water supplied by a reservoir to raise and lower the locks that allow the transit of thousands of ships a ...

A 2016 expansion of the Panama Canal helped bigger ships move through the waterway. But it created an unintended side effect: saltwater fish from both oceans are now swimming into the canal's main ...

A Panama Canal cruise checks a lot of boxes for senior travelers: itineraries promise warm weather, a culturally-rich region and one of the world's great engineering spectacles.

Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino on Tuesday defended the construction of a new reservoir for the interoceanic canal and criticized those who oppose the project, which aims to secure water supply ...

The 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national, multi-decade project to link two oceans and transform global shipping. After ...