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

Often called one of the seven modern wonders of the world, the Panama Canal splits the continents of North and South America ...

President Trump’s push to take back control of the strategic waterway stokes memories of a period of U.S. imperial ambition ...

Roughly 5% of all global trade flows through the canal’s 50-mile (80-kilometer) stretch each year, with the largest chunk ...

Scientists with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute on Lake Gatún ... were in the canal system before, scientists with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama have found.

The system handles dozens of ships a day, using gates, locks and reservoirs fed from an artificial lake to lift the vessels up some 26 meters (85 feet) and bring them down again to sea level.

In the past few weeks, the president has revived his effort to buy Greenland, threatened to retake the Panama ... at Gatun Lake, the principal hydrological reserve for the canal, at historically ...

America most certainly has strategic interests in both the Panama Canal Zone and in Greenland ... One wonders if Trump will ever understand that the system of alliances that America has carefully ...

The locks are fed by a freshwater lake, and if the lake runs low or dry ... We sent a ship through the Panama Canal from the West Coast that was carrying an Iron Dome system we were bringing back to ...