In this episode of Need to Know, host John Milewski speaks with Benjamin Gedan, Director of the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, about the geopolitical and economic significance of the Panama ...

Panama has been looking for solutions to a long-term problem. Every time a ship passes through the Panama Canal, more than 50 ...

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Panama’s Jose Raul Mulino had already done a lot to appease the incoming American president. He’d clamped down on migration routes and declared his country the new southern border for the US.Most Read ...

Remarkably, fossil shark teeth are also incredibly abundant. Sharks ruled the earth’s oceans for 400 million years, and every individual grows and sheds thousands of teeth in their lifetime.

That data allowed scientists to map out ratios of strontium isotopes ... North and South America after the formation of the Isthmus of Panama 4 million to 5 million years ago.

Panama’s small Chinese community traces its roots in the 19th century and the arrival of laborers who came to help build the railroad, then the canal, that cross the isthmus. | Ben Schreckinger ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting Panama in his first international trip. Here’s what to know about the Panama Canal ...

In his inaugural address last month, Donald Trump described the US decision to hand full control of the canal to Panama ... a waterway across the 51-mile isthmus between the Pacific and the ...

former U.S. ambassador to Panama. The waterway was cleaved across the most narrow section of the Panamanian isthmus in the late 1800s and early 1900s, by French and then U.S. engineers.

The aggressive rhetoric of US President Donald Trump has shocked Panamanians, who see the waterway as a source of enormous national pride. View on euronews ...