PANAMA CITY, Panama —Traffic in the Panama Canal fell by 29 percent over the past year due to a severe drought linked to climate change, the canal's operator said late Tuesday.

The volume of cargo shipped through the canal, which links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was down by 17 percent in a year to 423 million tons, the canal authority of the Central American country added.

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