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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Wildfire smoke engulfed their cities. Did it make their babies sick?
Years after wildfire scares, parents are left wondering if their children's chronic illnesses began with what was in the air before they were born.
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Trump’s EPA vows to fight ‘forever chemicals’ by loosening regulations
“It seems like they have largely adopted the positions of the chemical industry.”
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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.