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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Hawaii’s rarest plants are in crisis. Meet the people fighting to save them.
Climate change makes it easier for invasive species to thrive on Kauai.
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Meet the tick that’s forcing Americans to give up their meat
Lone star ticks hunt in packs and spread an allergy to beef and pork. Thanks to climate change, they're spreading.
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Rich countries invested less money in renewables last year. U.S. cities are picking up the slack.
“The rise of solar power over the past decade has been largely driven by cities.”
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Climate change will have its Scopes Monkey Trial this week
A court pits Big Oil against California and decades of denial against climate science.