Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the swamps of Belize—a vast network of canals and ponds dating back 4,000 years. These structures predate the Mayan civilization by around 700 ...

Several narrowboats trapped by a canal collapse have finally been lifted out so that they can rejoin the canal network. A large hole appeared in the bank of the Llangollen Canal near Whitchurch, ...

There is a "very real risk" that the ongoing closure of part of the canal network will continue, the Canal and River Trust has said. The Oxford Canal between Claydon and Aynho is currently shut ...

On a misty winter’s day in the English midlands, engineers struggled to drag stranded narrowboats from a waterless, mud-filled canal that collapsed weeks earlier, in a delicate, multi-million-pound ...

The ancient Mesopotamians created a massive, sophisticated network of canals to water their crops more than 3,000 years ago, a new study has revealed. Researchers found thousands of ancient irrigation ...