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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‘It’s gigantic’: Hurricane Lee heads for New England and Atlantic Canada
The 600-mile wide storm has weakened, but its impacts in Massachusetts, Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia are expected to be severe.
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Parts of the world have already grown too hot for human survival
Even more areas will face such conditions as the planet continues to warm from fossil fuel combustion.
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Burning Man’s climate reckoning has begun
Protesters highlighted the festival’s carbon footprint, but the biggest issue may be Burning Man’s opposition to renewable energy in its own backyard.
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How many people are really dying from heat?
“The system of death surveillance wasn’t designed for a climate-changed world."