sailing through the straight of Hormuz and both sides claiming that they control uh the strategic the strategic waterway . But uh but this is not going to help uh global shipping because uh nomatter whether Iran is um u blocking uh the the ships uh and stopping the ships
straight of Hormuz is open but that there are conditions that limit vessel operators appetites to moving through that waterway . That of course being the risk of exposure to sea mines and of course the risk of exposure to Iranian missile and drone attacks if they do not abide by Iranian orders, namely to reroute through Iranian waters and pay
President Trump threaten to bomb Oman twice and claim the Strait of Hummus, a recognized international waterway as US territory. We've seen his campaign to dismantle the international criminal court, and he's cast doubt on a major security alliance with South Korea, saying decades of defense cooperation
accept concessions from its negotiating partners in terms of how much it charges or how many vessels it lets move through this vital waterway on a daily basis. And Megan, talking about negotiations, Trump has also said the US has a direct back channel with the Islamic
before. The tracking data from Kepler says that what it called commodity vessel transits totaled nine. Some vessels may be sailing through the waterway with their transponders turned off, which won't show on the data. Well, President Trump addressed the issue of the street of Hummus at his White House event.
Well, the Strait of Hormuz continues to be a central focus of any attempt to end this war with both Iran and the US claiming they have control of the vital waterway . Donald Trump posted this map on Truth Social labeling the Strait of Hormuz as a new US territory. He's previously threatened to declare the crucial route, which lies between Iran
And it really took forever, but it opened the border. anything I should know about this waterway before I get in it?
I mean, you look at some of the caves that have been painted, and for one of our forebears to have to travel sometimes kilometers in darkness through underground waterways to find various surfaces on which they would paint various kinds of beings that didn't even exist in the real world, perhaps, why in the world would they do it?
But I think the one thing that-- the point that I tried to make in my book, and I think the one thing that pretty much everybody can agree It ends up in the waterways .
And then we used steam engines to build canals, like the Erie Canal which opened in 1825. And that connected all these waterways together. So we had this nice network of waterways .
And that connected all these waterways together. So we had this nice network of waterways . It's like a highway system.
And instead of going into New York, they traveled to the interior of the country. And they came down the major waterways . And a huge number of them settled in an area that became known as the German Triangle.
prevent is them agreeing with the Omanis that there will be tolling of the Strait of Hormuz that ships will be forced to pay by the Iranians to to pass that waterway . And Tom, to what extent is this war influencing the latest approval ratings
going through um also there were no crossings through the usual Omani route and all of this matters why well because when ships can't safely move through these key waterways then companies they have to sort of go away and think about how to rroot ships as you pointed out on that map there and that means often longer journeys higher fuel also higher
there are just so many different committees that oversee each of the Great Lakes and then different aspects of them, shipping, environmental stuff, and then there's an international joint committee for waterways . It's like a super committee overseeing the whole thing.
And then within half an hour or so, like some really short amount of time, one of them emails me back and is like, hey, we got in touch with the Joint Commission on Waterways , and the chair of the commission-- like, here's an email from them saying, the two appointees currently are so and so and so and so, and they're really nice.
But they didn't, because private interests decided that that would be far too disruptive to trade. And so cholera was allowed to come down these waterways again and again. In fact, there were companies that were making money selling cholera-contaminated water to the people of New York.
And I wasn't planning on talking about this, but I just want to throw it out, since I'm here. One of the great reasons why we have so much polluted waterways in the United States is because farmers and the need for ever greater amount of yield are planting on ever more marginal soil.
So for me Venice and New York were very similar. So that's why I'm very involved into the waterways . And I think that we had a tendency of going inland and building highways along the coast.
really think about it. Because they'll swim up through the inter-coastal waterways and up in through the estuaries. And when they die, they feed the trees.
continues to implement its blockade on Iranian ports, that does not necessarily mean it has control of the straight of form or that it will be able to maintain control of this waterway once a broader deescalation agreement with Iran is potentially reached. And Megan, does this mean that Iran has very successfully been using its leverage,
-Maybe the worst environmental disaster in British Columbia's history. 10 million cubic meters of waste water containing dangerous chemicals poured into local waterways when the earthland dam surrounding a tailings collapsed. -The technologies, the experts, everybody was on deck when they built Mount Polley Mine as the shiny example of new mining in British Columbia.
bowl. And you see these little fingers of waterways through there.
It's the nitrogen, it's the fertilizer, that becomes utilized as feedstock for the algae. And it blooms, and it destroys waterways . It kills off fish, kills off plant life, and so forth.
between the sides came to an end. The US president also lays claim to the Strait of Hormuz posting a map labeling the key waterway as US territory. Meanwhile, Qatar says it won't mediate wider talks to end the war until a deal
Cabot told John Dudley and his other Mysterie merchants that they could sail north and there they would find an open waterway .
you may never guess it but a lot of Florida looks like this because it was built on top of waterways in the past 30
This was used in conjunction with canals, which were used to create waterways into the interior, so it was possible to start settling and creating economies
If we incinerate this, it goes up into the air and eventually into the waterways .
wash water. Excess dye and wash water also require chemical treatment before being released into the waterways . But new thinking -- what Einstein was talking
Americans and the Iranians. Uh saying that he's going to or he now says that he's claimed the Strait of Hormuz as US territory, something that he simply legally has no authority or right to do um in an international waterway and for multitude other reasons. But again, that's meant to have an impact on on the way the Iranians thinking are thinking
you referenced Kepler's latest data. I mean, it shows really how constrained shipping has become, those crossings through the straight of Hormuz, you know, one of the world's vital waterways when it comes to uh getting energy out certainly to Asia and other parts of the world. um down again Sunday you mentioned I mean pretty much nothing
They're eating what would grow into shrubs and trees to provide habitat for native animals, this also causes soil erosion, impacts waterways --
And it's heading straight for New York City. So the obvious thing, then, would have been to enact a quarantine on the waterways . But they didn't, because private interests decided that that would be far too disruptive to trade.
And if you live in New York City, you still have lots of access to parks and playgrounds and going along the waterways and talking with your children and experiencing nature
That I don't have to worry about, was this a farm where they keep the manure in lagoons outside and it inevitably runs off into local waterways and gets sprayed through aerosol
they farm hydroponically, they're, it's become quite unsustainable cause their waterways have also become polluted by some of the same things that I described are happening in the
He's standing beside the Red River which is one of the tributaries of the Blue Nile. The Blue Nile is one of the great waterways of Africa. It gathers steam and a tremendous