LIMÓN DE CHAGRES, Panama — Digna Benite stands on the banks of the calm Río Indio and recalls playing in the water while her father fished. "This river is my whole life," Benite, 60, says through a ...

The Panama Canal is an extraordinary feat of engineering ... and pushed authorities to pursue a controversial plan to dam a river in an effort to secure its survival — an act that would flood ...

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

Panama Canal representatives explain to locals how a proposed dam project in the Indio River that aims to secure the canal's uninterrupted operation would affect the future of El Jobo, Panama ...

Panama City, Panama: The deputy administrator ... Coordinator for Life and residents of some communities in the Indio River basin. At the meeting, held in the community of Las Marías de Penonomé ...

So far this year, more than 212,000 have entered Panama through the Darien. It is the rainy season in Panama, making the numerous rivers that migrants have to cross more dangerous.

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A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and ...