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

Panama is inching closer to China, Trump’s new Federal Maritime Commission head Louis Sola tells CNBC, and ‘all options on ...

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

In his inaugural speech, President Donald Trump repeated his plan to regain control of the Panama Canal. Can he?

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

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 ...

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.

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat ... to be the perfect spot for a trans-oceanic canal that would shorten the sea voyage by thousands of miles.