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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![an illustration of a woman in a red dress and a pregnant belly is in a space covered by a mosquito net with many mosquitoes hovering outside]()
![an illustration of a woman in a red dress and a pregnant belly is in a space covered by a mosquito net with many mosquitoes hovering outside]()
Pregnant in a warming climate: A lethal ‘double risk’ for malaria
Mosquitoes are moving into the mountains of Papua New Guinea and other highland areas. That could be a death sentence for pregnant people.
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![An illustration of a woman standing in water holding a jug. Her reflection on the water shows her holding a baby]()
![An illustration of a woman standing in water holding a jug. Her reflection on the water shows her holding a baby]()
Salt in the womb: How rising seas erode reproductive health
Women in Bangladesh are confronting the dangerous health effects of consuming salty water. They won't be the last.
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![This is an aerial shot of a flooded city neighborhood. The street is lined with white high-rise apartment buildings and the road is submerged in brown floodwater.]()
![This is an aerial shot of a flooded city neighborhood. The street is lined with white high-rise apartment buildings and the road is submerged in brown floodwater.]()
In Brazil, unprecedented flooding may force a political reckoning
“This is going to shake the mindsets of voters."
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![An aerial shot of an outdoor industrial with green and yellow construction equipment next to a vat containing brown material]()
![An aerial shot of an outdoor industrial with green and yellow construction equipment next to a vat containing brown material]()
The EPA is cracking down on PFAS — but not in fertilizer
Farmers spread treated human waste on their crops. It's full of forever chemicals.
