Discover the top 5 longest canals in the world, including China's Grand Canal and the Karakum Canal. Learn their essential functions for irrigation, trade, and water supply.

Success may have many fathers, but the Erie Canal, 200 years old this fall, owes its success to at least one mother: Mother Nature. When the last great glacier melted in this region, it left behind an ...

Ever since Christopher Columbus discovered that a New World blocked the sea route to China, the eyes of princes, nations and fortune seekers have turned to finding and controlling a water route ...

When the original Erie Canal was built between 1817 and 1825, it was both the longest artificial waterway in North America and its most significant public works project. Since no one had ever ...

A container ship passing through the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal in 2023. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images) “The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts,” said President Trump in his ...

The U.S.-Mexico border is 1,989 miles long; of that, 1,255 is the Rio Grande river. The Rio Grande is, at its deepest, 60 feet, but much is much shallower. The rest of the border, including a small ...

The need for backbreaking labor to advance trade and transportation on the upper Connecticut River attracted about 400 Irish workers to a crude riverside camp in the late 1820s. With pick and shovel ...

While the diversion canal is expected to have a large impact in areas around Central and Baker if it's built, the effect in south Baton Rouge, Ascension Parish and lower Livingston Parish would be ...

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“The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts,” said President Trump in his second inaugural address, on Jan. 20, as he cited his foreign policy initiatives. The Gulf of Mexico would be ...