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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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.
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This teen activist dropped out of high school to focus on climate
Three years ago, Aji Piper was in his first year of high school doing all the things teens do -- studying, making friends, and taking tests. Oh, and he was also suing the United States government.
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Illinois voters saw through this Republican’s climate facade
In all, 12 other conservative members of the Climate Solutions Caucus lost their seats to folks with better climate bonafides.