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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Prevention is better than cure, both #ForPeopleForPlanet.
Today at #UNEA7, leaders are exploring how prevention - not reaction - can reduce disease, #BeatPollution, and protect well-being through stronger science and governance.
Watch live: https://ow.ly/PvAM50XGScX
Today at #UNEA7, leaders are exploring how prevention - not reaction - can reduce disease, #BeatPollution, and protect well-being through stronger science and governance.
Watch live: https://ow.ly/PvAM50XGScX
December 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Prevention is better than cure, both #ForPeopleForPlanet.
Today at #UNEA7, leaders are exploring how prevention - not reaction - can reduce disease, #BeatPollution, and protect well-being through stronger science and governance.
Watch live: https://ow.ly/PvAM50XGScX
Today at #UNEA7, leaders are exploring how prevention - not reaction - can reduce disease, #BeatPollution, and protect well-being through stronger science and governance.
Watch live: https://ow.ly/PvAM50XGScX
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Across Latin America, leaders often campaign on conservation but pivot once in office, weakening protections & backing extractive industries.
From Bolsonaro’s rollback of Brazil’s safeguards to pushes for farming & drilling in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, Indigenous rights & forests remain at risk.
From Bolsonaro’s rollback of Brazil’s safeguards to pushes for farming & drilling in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, Indigenous rights & forests remain at risk.
Across Latin America populist regimes challenge nature conservation goals
The election of populist politicians seldom bodes well for the people of the Amazon or the conservation of its biodiversity and ecosystem services. Most are just stylistic versions of the generic…
news.mongabay.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Across Latin America, leaders often campaign on conservation but pivot once in office, weakening protections & backing extractive industries.
From Bolsonaro’s rollback of Brazil’s safeguards to pushes for farming & drilling in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, Indigenous rights & forests remain at risk.
From Bolsonaro’s rollback of Brazil’s safeguards to pushes for farming & drilling in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, Indigenous rights & forests remain at risk.
Stop mining in Dominica!
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December 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Stop mining in Dominica!
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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...
it’s a miracle there is any support at all for this war-mongering, lying, self-enriching individual.
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
it’s a miracle there is any support at all for this war-mongering, lying, self-enriching individual.
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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.
🎧 natureinsight.podbean.com
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
go.nature.com/4oj1dke
go.nature.com/4oj1dke
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.
go.nature.com
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
“Murky” is a euphemism for
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“Murky” is a euphemism for
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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.
