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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Trump signs executive orders fast-tracking the pipeline approval process
“We’re gonna make it easier for you,” Trump said. “You know about delays? Where it takes you 20 years to get a permit? Those days are gone.”
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The latest House climate hearing went about as well as you’d expect
John Kerry deserves some kind of award (in addition to his Purple Hearts) for responding to a slew of truly dumb questions on Tuesday with his signature composure.
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Nathaniel Rich’s ‘Losing Earth’ tells lost history of our current climate predicament
In the decade between 1979 and 1989, humans had a good shot at solving climate change. What went wrong?
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The Midwest braces for yet another major storm
Forecasters aren’t yet sure if we can call this storm bomb cyclone 2.0, but it will bring snow, high winds, and possibly thunderstorms to the Plains and Upper Midwest starting on Wednesday.