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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This was the hottest June in history, and summer is just getting started
The month brought misery to huge swaths of the planet.
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How to really judge whether 2020 candidates support the Green New Deal? Look at their climate plans.
Is support for the Green New Deal still the best way to determine if your favorite candidate is a climate hawk? As more and more presidential hopefuls release ambitious climate plans, that particular green credential is rapidly growing outdated.
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The Democratic debates heated up all the way to lukewarm on climate
Well, the second portion of the first Democratic primary debate came and went on Thursday night, and climate change fared only a bit better than it did the first night.
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Climate activists protest at the DNC headquarters ahead of the first primary debate
Ten candidates will take the stage at the first official Democratic National Committee debate tonight in Miami, Florida. But a question already looms over the festivities: Should the DNC host a climate-themed debate?