Inside Climate News
This Growing Climate Threat Could Be Increasing Your Blood Pressure
Rising salt levels in drinking water — driven by wastewater runoff, agriculture, and oil extraction — may be quietly contributing to high blood pressure in millions of people. Experts warn that sodium intake from tap water is an overlooked variable that current dietary guidance largely ignores. As climate change accelerates saltwater intrusion into freshwater sources, the problem is only expected to grow.
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Cropped 22 April 2026: Global food ‘catastrophe’ | BECCS emissions | UK solar farm controversy
Global food systems are edging toward crisis, with new warnings of a potential "catastrophe" driven by converging pressures on land, climate, and supply chains. The edition also scrutinizes BECCS — bioenergy with carbon capture and storage — amid growing questions about whether its real-world emissions stack up against its green credentials. Rounding out the week, a UK solar farm dispute highlights the intensifying tension between renewable energy expansion and rural land use.
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Heatwaves, floods and wildfires pose rising threat to democracy, report finds
Climate-fueled disasters disrupted 23 elections across 18 countries in 2024 alone, according to new research tracking the intersection of extreme weather and democratic processes. Over the past two decades, at least 94 elections and referendums across 52 countries have been affected by floods, wildfires, and heatwaves. The findings underscore a largely overlooked dimension of the climate crisis: its capacity to destabilize the foundational mechanics of democratic governance.
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Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns
Nearly half of all children in the United States are exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution, according to the American Lung Association's 27th annual air quality report. The findings, based on ground-level ozone and particle pollution data, arrive as the Trump administration pursues sweeping rollbacks of EPA environmental protections. Health experts warn the policy reversals are likely to deepen an already serious public health crisis affecting tens of millions of young Americans.
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Mongabay
Indigenous peoples’ health cannot be separated from the environment, U.N. delegates warn
Indigenous health and environmental health are one and the same, according to experts speaking at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Delegates highlighted how extractive industries, environmental degradation, and climate change are compounding existing health inequalities faced by Indigenous communities worldwide. The warnings underscore a growing call for policymakers to treat land rights and ecological protection as inseparable from Indigenous wellbeing.
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