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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There’s a fight brewing in D.C. over the future of the green movement
As we hurtle closer to a 2 degrees Celsius of warming, the split between these two groups is widening into a chasm.
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6 tick-borne illnesses that will haunt your dreams tonight
Ticks are your next-door neighbors … except the diseases they carry aren’t neighborly at all.
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What were Ocasio-Cortez and 150 young activists doing in Nancy Pelosi’s office?
Protestors held an hour-long sit-in in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office in D.C. on Tuesday. Their goal? an economy-wide plan to tackle climate change.
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Axl Rose is Twitter feuding with Trump over California wildfires
On Saturday, as a trio of wildfires whipped through California and terrified people evacuated, President Trump took to Twitter to berate the state.