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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They survived the hurricane. Their insurance company didn’t.
Hurricane Ida revealed a fragile insurance industry ill-prepared for the consequences of climate change. More than four years later, what's changed?
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‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
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As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy
Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.
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In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies
What one doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.
