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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Watch out, Big Oil. Jay Inslee’s back at it again with a greenhouse gas fee.
Adding to his growing stack of policies aimed at averting the climate crisis, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, one of the 23 Democrats running for president, announced Monday the fourth part of his Climate Mission: the Freedom from Fossil Fuels plan.
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Seattle is already prepping for another hellish summer of smoke
After three years of smoke, the city is hoping to get ahead of the crisis before it begins.
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Can climate change be stopped? Here’s what the Democratic presidential candidates say.
Leave it to a politician to figure out the right way to answer an unanswerable question.
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The group that pushed the Green New Deal sets its sights on 2020 and beyond
Grist sat down with Executive Director Varshini Prakash to discuss the Green New Deal and the Democratic candidates.