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

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

He said the Panama Canal is "vital" to the U.S. economy with ... it is a water bridge over a mountainous area that is above sea level," Maffei said. "A trend of worsening droughts in the region ...

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.

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 ...

and bring them down again to sea level. Vessels are charged for the crossing based on their size. The United States — followed by China and Japan — is the Panama Canal's main client ...

In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I take a brief look at the connection between sea level rise ... reiterates threat to retake Panama Canal ‘or something very powerful ...

Newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing to "take back" the Panama Canal ... by climate change lowered the level of lakes feeding the canal, forcing its administrator to restrict ...

would cut the sea journey by half. And how did it secure the rights? Partly by gunboat diplomacy. The US government bought the French canal concession, but Panama was then a province of Colombia ...

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.

The use of force by the US to gain control of the Panama Canal and Greenland ... such navigation rights in the South China Sea. As for the Panama Canal, it would be difficult for Trump to restrict ...

Trump refused to rule out using military force to retake the Panama ... Sea from Western Europe to East Asia, for example, is about 40 percent shorter compared to sailing through the Suez Canal.