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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When West Nile virus turns deadly
How climate change is complicating efforts to contain America's most common mosquito-borne illness.
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What’s behind the record outbreak of spongy moths in the eastern US?
Blame drought — and a careless French entomologist.
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Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis
A new series explores how climate change transforms our reproductive lives, from menstruation to fertility to pregnancy.
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Four lost pregnancies. Five weeks of IVF injections. One storm.
A couple spent years and tens of thousands of dollars trying to have a baby. Then Hurricane Ian hit.
