Articles by Staff Writer Zoya Teirstein
Zoya Teirstein is a 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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Joe Biden wants to be the anti-Trump. Here’s what that could mean for climate policy.
The former veep will inherit Obama's climate record -- both the good bits and the bad ones.
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Climate movement grandpa James Hansen says the Green New Deal is ‘nonsense’
His solution to climate catastrophe? You may want to sit down for this one: a carbon tax.
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This GIF captures just how gigantic the U.S. carbon footprint is
President Trump likes to say that the “unfair” Paris agreement would have given China and India a free pass. Now, we have a mindblowing visualization of nations’ cumulative carbon footprints.
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Jay Inslee turns up the pressure on the DNC to host a climate debate
“Each 2020 candidate needs to have a concrete plan to take on this challenge — and we deserve to hear those plans,” Inslee wrote.