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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![Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivers a speech during the General Plenary of Leaders in the framework of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on November 6, 2025.]()
![Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivers a speech during the General Plenary of Leaders in the framework of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on November 6, 2025.]()
10 years after the Paris Agreement, world leaders are letting go of its most famous goal
This year's U.N. climate negotiations crashed out on a hard truth: It’s all about the money.
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![Diplomats discuss climate policy at COP30 in Brazil.]()
![Diplomats discuss climate policy at COP30 in Brazil.]()
At COP30 in Brazil, countries plan to armor themselves against a warming world
In the eyes of many leaders of developing countries, the success of COP30 hinges on the billions of dollars they need to prepare for climate disasters.
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![Collage of COP30 preparatory meeting, dollar bill, smokestack, and Trump]()
![Collage of COP30 preparatory meeting, dollar bill, smokestack, and Trump]()
Here are the 5 issues to watch at COP30 in Brazil
“The entire Paris Agreement experiment is being challenged.”
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![A middle-aged man in a mariokart t-shirt stands in front of a house with a severely damaged facade covered in torn construction tarp and mesh. Near the house, a small green plastic worm toy stands propped up next to a sidewalk]()
![A middle-aged man in a mariokart t-shirt stands in front of a house with a severely damaged facade covered in torn construction tarp and mesh. Near the house, a small green plastic worm toy stands propped up next to a sidewalk]()
They survived the hurricane. Their insurance company didn’t.
Hurricane Ida revealed a fragile insurance industry ill-prepared for the consequences of climate change. More than four years later, what's changed?
