Natosha Hoduski, PhD
@natoshahoduski.bsky.social
Postdoc in Environmental Governance at the Ostrom Workshop | Uni of St Andrews PhD | Research: Hydropolitics, Syria, Environmental Security, Climate and Conflict | LFC fangirl
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Quite a difficult (though not entirely unexpected) conclusion to a long negotiation.
Following 10 days of negotiations, #INC5 talks to develop a global #PlasticsTreaty adjourned on 15 August in Geneva without consensus on a text of the instrument.
Negotiations will resume at a future date to be announced: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Negotiations will resume at a future date to be announced: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
August 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Quite a difficult (though not entirely unexpected) conclusion to a long negotiation.
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Following 10 days of negotiations, #INC5 talks to develop a global #PlasticsTreaty adjourned on 15 August in Geneva without consensus on a text of the instrument.
Negotiations will resume at a future date to be announced: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Negotiations will resume at a future date to be announced: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
August 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Following 10 days of negotiations, #INC5 talks to develop a global #PlasticsTreaty adjourned on 15 August in Geneva without consensus on a text of the instrument.
Negotiations will resume at a future date to be announced: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Negotiations will resume at a future date to be announced: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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US under Trump is not content with hampering international action on climate change. It’s also lobbying other countries to oppose an ambitious plastic pollution treaty
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Exclusive: Trump administration memo urges countries to reject plastic production caps in UN Treaty
The United States has sent letters to at least a handful of countries urging them to reject the goal of a global pact that includes limits on plastic production and plastic chemical additives at the start of U.N. plastic treaty talks in Geneva, according to a memo and communications seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
US under Trump is not content with hampering international action on climate change. It’s also lobbying other countries to oppose an ambitious plastic pollution treaty
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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The worst drought in 60 years may push Syria into a serious crisis, warns the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Some 16.3m people risk food insecurity in 2025. As with oil, Syria relies on wheat imports from Russia—a first shipment arrived in April.
@afp.com: www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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Syria's wheat war: drought fuels food crisis for 16 million
Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a devastating war, pushing more than 16 million people toward food insecurity.
www.france24.com
June 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The worst drought in 60 years may push Syria into a serious crisis, warns the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Some 16.3m people risk food insecurity in 2025. As with oil, Syria relies on wheat imports from Russia—a first shipment arrived in April.
@afp.com: www.france24.com/en/live-news...
@afp.com: www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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The impact of water shortages from #climatechange are going to be brutal this summer. In Lake Dukan in northern #Iraq, the water levels have dropped nearly 60% in 6 years time impacting farmers and households depending on it www.scmp.com/news/world/m...
June 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The impact of water shortages from #climatechange are going to be brutal this summer. In Lake Dukan in northern #Iraq, the water levels have dropped nearly 60% in 6 years time impacting farmers and households depending on it www.scmp.com/news/world/m...
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Thinking about Max Weber’s claim that modern states hold a “monopoly on the use of force.” Increasingly, in an era of mass media and lawfare, it is a “monopoly on defining violence.” Legitimate / illegitimate. Peaceful / violent. Terror / collateral. Protest / insurrection. Order / resistance.
June 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Thinking about Max Weber’s claim that modern states hold a “monopoly on the use of force.” Increasingly, in an era of mass media and lawfare, it is a “monopoly on defining violence.” Legitimate / illegitimate. Peaceful / violent. Terror / collateral. Protest / insurrection. Order / resistance.
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Benjamin Fève on drought in Syria
Ringing the Alarm Bells Syria May Be Facing Its Worst Drought in Decades
www.karamshaar.com
May 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Benjamin Fève on drought in Syria
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"The trends are clear: By 2050, every single country in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) will live under extremely high water stress," warns @mideast.csis.org expert @natashahall.bsky.social
Learn more:
Learn more:
The Thirst for Power
The Middle East has battled water insecurity for centuries, but today, the region is on a razor’s edge. Tackling the politics and power dynamics that have exacerbated scarcity is the only way to…
www.csis.org
May 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"The trends are clear: By 2050, every single country in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) will live under extremely high water stress," warns @mideast.csis.org expert @natashahall.bsky.social
Learn more:
Learn more:
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Striking stat from @kellycnbc.bsky.social on this:
The rise in treasury yields since Trump’s tariffs were announced leads to an increase in US debt interest payments that is larger than all the DOGE savings.
The rise in treasury yields since Trump’s tariffs were announced leads to an increase in US debt interest payments that is larger than all the DOGE savings.
April 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Striking stat from @kellycnbc.bsky.social on this:
The rise in treasury yields since Trump’s tariffs were announced leads to an increase in US debt interest payments that is larger than all the DOGE savings.
The rise in treasury yields since Trump’s tariffs were announced leads to an increase in US debt interest payments that is larger than all the DOGE savings.
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Update! The senate at Indiana U-Bloomington has passed an identical resolution to the Rutgers Senate's calling for a Big Ten defense compact!!
And the Rutgers Senate is meeting tomorrow in a special emergency session to plan next steps. Read their open letter to President Jonathan Holloway below.
And the Rutgers Senate is meeting tomorrow in a special emergency session to plan next steps. Read their open letter to President Jonathan Holloway below.
April 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Update! The senate at Indiana U-Bloomington has passed an identical resolution to the Rutgers Senate's calling for a Big Ten defense compact!!
And the Rutgers Senate is meeting tomorrow in a special emergency session to plan next steps. Read their open letter to President Jonathan Holloway below.
And the Rutgers Senate is meeting tomorrow in a special emergency session to plan next steps. Read their open letter to President Jonathan Holloway below.
Just two weeks ago UNICEF warned “More than 500,000 [Syrian] children under five are suffering life-threatening malnutrition, while 2 million more on the verge of becoming malnourished.”
Continuing its aid cuts, the United States ends emergency food aid via the WFP, which it had previously pledged to spare. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/usai...
April 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Just two weeks ago UNICEF warned “More than 500,000 [Syrian] children under five are suffering life-threatening malnutrition, while 2 million more on the verge of becoming malnourished.”
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Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
April 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
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This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.
Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
www.theguardian.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.
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“Now their universities are on notice that the government is looking for a settlement that includes abridging the autonomy of centers and departments devoted to the study of the Middle East,” Professor Bali said…. “I’ve never seen anything comparable to this. This is totally unprecedented.”
Leaders of Harvard’s Middle Eastern Studies Center Will Leave
Harvard University has been under pressure by the Trump administration to follow directives related to diversity and combating antisemitism.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“Now their universities are on notice that the government is looking for a settlement that includes abridging the autonomy of centers and departments devoted to the study of the Middle East,” Professor Bali said…. “I’ve never seen anything comparable to this. This is totally unprecedented.”
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Rep. Raskin sets the record straight: In America, Congress makes the laws. The President’s job is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed—not thwarted, frustrated and trashed.
Rep. Jamie Raskin sets the record straight
YouTube video by House Committee on the Judiciary
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March 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Rep. Raskin sets the record straight: In America, Congress makes the laws. The President’s job is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed—not thwarted, frustrated and trashed.