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The size of ships that can traverse the Panama canal will be reduced in september draft will be 39 ft from 39.5ft due to a drought caused by ELNino. This is expected to effect 20% of  ships that pass through the canal.    This is not the first time this has happened back in 1998 the limit was reduced. More     BBC       Economic Times

One of NASA'S satellites   DSCOVR  " Deep Space Climate Observatory" captured these pictures that have been made into an animation. The images are of the moon passing earth from the other side. full story   Earthsky.org