In 1760 the British Parliament approved construction of a canal to carry coal half a dozen miles (approximately 9.6 km) from the mines at Worsley to the city of Manchester. Until the eighteenth century, European canals were generally financed by the...

Canals are artificial channels for water. There are two main types of canals: irrigation canals, which are used for the delivery of water, and waterways, which are navigable transportation canals used for passage of goods and people, often connected to...

Panama blasted away part of a hillside next to the canal on Monday, marking the start of the waterway's biggest expansion since it opened 93 years ago.In the presence of former President Carter, who signed the 1977 treaty that gave Panama control of the waterway,...

Drilling and filling and root canal, oh my!Koda, one of two young polar bears at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, was jabbed with an anesthetic dart and carted off for dental work on an infected chipped tooth.The root canal procedure was performed Sunday by...

Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes and golden marsh. From the air, they look like a Pac-Man maze superimposed on an estuarine landscape 10 times the size of Grand Canyon National Park.There are...