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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A brain-swelling illness spread by ticks is on the rise in Europe
Experts say climate change plays a role: “It’s a really common problem that was absent 20 or 30 years ago.”
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One year in, the Inflation Reduction Act is working — kind of
The climate law is lowering the cost of solar and wind, but Paris Agreement goals are still out of reach.
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A hotter, sicker world
El Niño, combined with climate change, will lead to a spike in mosquito-borne illnesses, tick-borne illnesses, and bacterial disease.
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The author of ‘Blight’ explains how humans supercharged fungal pathogens
Fungal diseases have come for frogs, bats, and bananas, and they're coming for us, too.