Articles by Staff Writer Zoya Teirstein
Zoya Teirstein is a 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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A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate-health funding
Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.
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Trump repeals America’s first-ever tax on greenhouse gases before it goes into effect
The methane fee would have had the same impact as taking 8 million gas-powered cars off the road.
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How Trump’s trade war could impact US electricity prices — and state climate plans
Northern states are depending on imported Canadian hydropower to clean up their grids. What happens now?
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Extreme heat can age you as fast as a smoking habit
A new study shows that exposure to high temperatures adds up to 14 months to older adults' cellular age.