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.
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 💚
Reposted by Ina Vandebroek
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…
news.mongabay.com
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.
www.reuters.com
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
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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
www.theguardian.com
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!
Reposted by Ina Vandebroek
“Early-warning systems work.” — António Guterres
Countries with strong alerts see 6x fewer disaster deaths, yet millions still lack protection.
UN chief calls for urgent financing to achieve #EarlyWarningsForAll by 2027.
More via UN News: news.un.org/en/story/202...
Countries with strong alerts see 6x fewer disaster deaths, yet millions still lack protection.
UN chief calls for urgent financing to achieve #EarlyWarningsForAll by 2027.
More via UN News: news.un.org/en/story/202...
October 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“Early-warning systems work.” — António Guterres
Countries with strong alerts see 6x fewer disaster deaths, yet millions still lack protection.
UN chief calls for urgent financing to achieve #EarlyWarningsForAll by 2027.
More via UN News: news.un.org/en/story/202...
Countries with strong alerts see 6x fewer disaster deaths, yet millions still lack protection.
UN chief calls for urgent financing to achieve #EarlyWarningsForAll by 2027.
More via UN News: news.un.org/en/story/202...
Melissa is going to hit us in Jamaica like a ton of bricks
October 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Melissa is going to hit us in Jamaica like a ton of bricks
The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, in Jamaica with storm Melissa looming
October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, in Jamaica with storm Melissa looming
Reposted by Ina Vandebroek
Large crowds of protesters gathered in cities across the U.S. on Saturday as part of a mass “No Kings” demonstration against the Trump administration. nyti.ms/4hocDS0
October 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Large crowds of protesters gathered in cities across the U.S. on Saturday as part of a mass “No Kings” demonstration against the Trump administration. nyti.ms/4hocDS0
Reposted by Ina Vandebroek
Around 6,000 years ago, people in the Andes developed ingenious ways to thrive in a challenging landscape
go.nature.com/490oeUS
go.nature.com/490oeUS
Andean peoples hunted and gathered long after they embraced farming
Remote-sensing data reveal hunting corrals that were used well into the eighteenth century.
go.nature.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Around 6,000 years ago, people in the Andes developed ingenious ways to thrive in a challenging landscape
go.nature.com/490oeUS
go.nature.com/490oeUS
Carpenter bee (Xylocopa sp., perhaps Xylocopa mordax) in Jamaica pollinating a passion flower
October 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Carpenter bee (Xylocopa sp., perhaps Xylocopa mordax) in Jamaica pollinating a passion flower
