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.
All Articles
-
![Collage of contaminated water fountain]()
![Collage of contaminated water fountain]()
What one school’s fight to eliminate PFAS says about Indian Country’s ‘forever chemical’ problem
As the United States begins to crack down on PFAS contamination, Indigenous communities are getting left behind.
-
![]()
![]()
How doctors treat extreme heat
Inside a Phoenix emergency room as temperatures rise and admissions spike.
-
![]()
![]()
In Phoenix, emergency room doctors confront the dangers of extreme heat
“Our burn unit is very, very busy."
-
![an illustration of a global map and a stick with two sticks coiled around it, a symbol associated with the medical profession]()
![an illustration of a global map and a stick with two sticks coiled around it, a symbol associated with the medical profession]()
From Samoa to the East Coast, doctors are diagnosing and treating climate change
Physicians and medical schools alike are tailoring their approach to public health as climate-related illnesses rise.
