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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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.
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‘The Heat Will Kill You First’ is a chilling book — and a warning
Author Jeff Goodell on an invisible, stealthy, and universal threat.
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Extreme heat will cost the US $1 billion in health care costs — this summer alone
High temperatures could lead to 235,000 ER visits and 56,000 hospital admissions for heat-related conditions annually.
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3M reaches historic settlement over PFAS contamination
1 in 20 Americans have the "forever chemicals" in their drinking water. The new, $10.3 billion deal will kickstart the cleanup process.