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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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.
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The internet is ablaze with Lil Dicky’s bizarre, star-studded climate anthem
A dozen A-list musicians are singing about the environment because it's 2019 and things aren't weird enough, apparently.
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Russians used coal to sow discord among Americans, says Mueller report
About a third of Mueller’s long-awaited report, released on Thursday, has been redacted. But enough is left to determine that Russia tried to exacerbate America’s mixed feelings about coal in order to tip the election in Trump’s favor.
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Here’s where all the official Democratic presidential candidates stand on climate
Though there are many small distinctions between the 18 presidential hopefuls on climate policy, there are two issues where there is meaningful daylight between candidates: nuclear energy and carbon taxes.
