Articles by Senior Staff Writer Zoya Teirstein
Zoya Teirstein is a senior staff writer covering the impacts of climate change on human health. Her work can also be found in Rolling Stone, Wired, and the Associated Press. She has received awards from the Indigenous Journalists Association, the SEAL Awards, and the Society of Environmental Journalists, and completed reporting fellowships with SciLine, the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawai‘i, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Most recently, she was a 2022-2023 National Science-Health-Environment Reporting fellow.
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Climate change is driving a tick boom. MAHA is blaming Bill Gates.
The conspiracists are right about one thing: Ticks are getting worse.
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How climate change could help hantavirus find more hosts
Experts say extreme weather is boosting the odds that the pathogens carried by rodents will spill over into human populations.
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Two months in, the Iran war has changed the global energy system forever
The conflict may be the beginning of the end of fossil fuel dominance. Here’s which energy sources stand to win and lose.
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The ‘age of electricity’ is here. No one knows what comes next.
As the war in Iran upends global fuel markets, two new reports confirm that 2025 was a banner year for renewable energy.