Ina Vandebroek
@inavandebroek.bsky.social
Ethnobotany scholar based in Jamaica 🇯🇲, studying the relationships between Caribbean plant diversity and Traditional Knowledge through community-based research. Advocate for biocultural diversity 🌿. For publications, visit ResearchGate. Not a herbalist.
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Bumper harvest of PhDs on offer at Kew Gardens at the moment - on many aspects of plants including ethnobotany and humanities approaches. Closing dates December -January: www.kew.org/science/trai...
Available PhD opportunities
Discover our funded PhD opportunities in environmental science and plant humanities and learn about our involvement with a range of Doctoral Training Partnerships and similar schemes.
www.kew.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Bumper harvest of PhDs on offer at Kew Gardens at the moment - on many aspects of plants including ethnobotany and humanities approaches. Closing dates December -January: www.kew.org/science/trai...
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What are the physical and mental health benefits of nature exposure? And what can we learn from Indigenous communities about these and other benefits?
On this episode of Nature Insight, we chat to Rachelle Gould and Nick Roskruge to answer these questions and more.
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On this episode of Nature Insight, we chat to Rachelle Gould and Nick Roskruge to answer these questions and more.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
What are the physical and mental health benefits of nature exposure? And what can we learn from Indigenous communities about these and other benefits?
On this episode of Nature Insight, we chat to Rachelle Gould and Nick Roskruge to answer these questions and more.
🎧 natureinsight.podbean.com
On this episode of Nature Insight, we chat to Rachelle Gould and Nick Roskruge to answer these questions and more.
🎧 natureinsight.podbean.com
Reggae-icoon Jimmy Cliff ('Reggae night', 'You can get it if you really want') overleden
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Reggae-icoon Jimmy Cliff ('Reggae night', 'You can get it if you really want') overleden | VRT NWS: nieuws
De Jamaicaanse zanger en acteur Jimmy Cliff, die de reggae-muziek wereldwijd mee hielp verspreiden, is overleden. Dat heeft zijn familie op sociale media bekendgemaakt. Cliff is bekend van onder meer ...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Reggae-icoon Jimmy Cliff ('Reggae night', 'You can get it if you really want') overleden
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Book review 📚 Why the global economic system should value life on our planet, not exploit it
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Why the global economic system should value life on our planet, not exploit it
To preserve the natural world, economists should account for forests and wetlands as much as for factories and farms.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Book review 📚 Why the global economic system should value life on our planet, not exploit it
go.nature.com/4oj1dke
go.nature.com/4oj1dke
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After the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/TKmf50XuPjY
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
After the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/TKmf50XuPjY
Thank you Barbados and PM the Hon. Mia Mottley 💚
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Thank you Barbados and PM the Hon. Mia Mottley 💚
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Voices in the Global South say that AI computing (whose producers remain principally in the Global North) is evolving as a new form of extractive colonialism. Some Indigenous people say it is time to question limitless technological innovation with its heavy environmental and social costs.
AI data center revolution sucks up world’s energy, water, materials
In 2024, the state of Querétaro in north-central Mexico suffered its worst drought in a century, impacting crops and communities. Seventeen of the state’s 18 municipalities were affected, putting…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Voices in the Global South say that AI computing (whose producers remain principally in the Global North) is evolving as a new form of extractive colonialism. Some Indigenous people say it is time to question limitless technological innovation with its heavy environmental and social costs.
Can he please LEAVE the Caribbean? www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
How the US is preparing a Caribbean staging ground near Venezuela
The US military is upgrading a Cold War base in the Caribbean it abandoned 20 years ago. Experts say it’s a step towards sustained operations in the region.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Can he please LEAVE the Caribbean? www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
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Wajã Xipai: I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen? #Cop30
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I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen?
A young journalist reflects on the UN leader’s responses, and hopes his messages – about human violence and an increasingly hostile planet – resonated before Cop30
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October 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Wajã Xipai: I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen? #Cop30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“The role climate change has played in making Hurricane Melissa incredibly dangerous is undeniable."
Jamaica cowers as Category 5 Melissa bears down, supercharged by warming seas
That climate change is making this and other major hurricanes far more dangerous is "undeniable."
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October 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“The role climate change has played in making Hurricane Melissa incredibly dangerous is undeniable."
The sounds are nerve racking
October 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The sounds are nerve racking
I measured my distance from the eye. 28 October 2025 11:45 am report from Kingston: Light rain, regular storm winds. Thinking about the family farmers and all the people to the west of me. Stay strong and be safe!
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I measured my distance from the eye. 28 October 2025 11:45 am report from Kingston: Light rain, regular storm winds. Thinking about the family farmers and all the people to the west of me. Stay strong and be safe!