A black, massive Hong Kong-registered ship inched its way through the churning waters of the Panama Canal — guided by ...

French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps directed a team of engineers to construct a sea-level canal in Panama in 1880. The builders encountered tropical heat, heavy rainfall, landslides, and diseases.

The President accused China of “lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal.” The truth is more complicated.

Recent rains have led the Panama ... into the sea. The lakes have been depleted by the scarcity of rainfall due to the El Niño phenomenon coupled with global warming. The water level in Alhajuela ...

More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...

Vessels able to fit through the Panama Canal were known to shipbuilders as ... sandy terrain at sea level. The French project became an “abysmal failure”, Julie Greene, author of The ...

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway in Panama ... at each end to lift ships up to a freshwater lake 85 feet above sea level and then lower them again at the other end.

Donald Trump has long been fixated on the Panama Canal, a crucial shipping route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. He has railed against rising tolls on American ships (though the increases ...

When US President Donald Trump threatened to "take back" the Panama Canal in his inauguration speech last week, Panamanians were reminded of American imperialism of old. For most of the 20th ...