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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A tale of two Washingtons: How Jay Inslee aims to take his climate plan nationwide
Can the Washington governor break through all the talk about the Green New Deal?
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The House passes a climate bill for the first time in a freaking decade
The bill is aimed at reaffirming American commitment to the Paris Agreement, a global climate accord that President Trump unceremoniously tried to ditch six months into his presidency.
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Beto’s first major 2020 policy proposal is a $5 trillion climate plan
The presidential hopeful unveiled what he called “the most ambitious climate plan in the history of the United States” in a 40-second Twitter video, gesticulating wildly on a backdrop of luscious flora in Yosemite Valley, California.
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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.