- Much like the planet’s air temperature, diabetes rates are rising around the world.
- Extreme heat, heavy floods, air pollution and infectious diseases will make dealing with diabetes harder and make the disease more common.
- With diabetes already being one of the main causes of death in South Africa, and the top killer disease among the country’s women, what will happen as weather patterns start to change?
- In the latest edition of Climate Connection, we untangle the links.
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Tanya Pampalone is Bhekisisa's business development consultant and climate health newsletter editor. Pampalone is the former managing editor of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, executive editor of the Mail & Guardian and head of partnerships and audience development for The Conversation Africa. Now a communications, strategy and fundraising consultant, she works with non-profit and mission-driven media groups in San Francisco and Johannesburg.
