The canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Before the canal, ships had to sail 13,000 miles around the tip of South America An artificial lake across Panama connects the oceans. The Gatun ...

Water levels in Gatun Lake, the rainfall-fed principal reservoir that floats ships through the Panama Canal’s lock system, have “continued to decline to unprecedented levels for this time of ...

A system of interconnecting locks raises ships around 26 meters (85 feet) above sea level, where they travel through Lake Gatún — one of the world’s largest artificial freshwater lakes ...

Invasive predators from the ocean Atlantic Canal entrance from Lake Gatun. | Photo: Gustavo A. Castellanos-Galindo The Panama Canal is a busy ...

More than 2,000 people could be displaced by the construction of the Río Indio dam. The Panama Canal Authority says the dam ...

Where are they now? Leila Nilipour In the mid-sixties, almost 50 years after the creation of the artificial Gatun Lake for the operations of the Panama Canal, the Health Bureau of the Panama Canal ...

Construction on the project, which includes a dam, is slated to begin in 2027 and take four years to complete.

At the Gamboa Rainforest Reserve, you’ll get on a boat and be taken into the heart of Gatun Lake. Gatun Lake is a large man-made lake located on the northern side of the country. It’s part of ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / March 11, 2025 / The backbone of global commerce-supply chains-faces unprecedented ...