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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Biden calls climate change an ‘emergency,’ but stops short of declaring it
The president unveiled new climate actions that activists say "don’t even scratch the surface of what’s needed."
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Extreme rainfall will be worse and more frequent than we thought, according to new studies
Researchers say some climate models are underestimating future floods.
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Report: US on track to fall ‘significantly short’ of its climate goals
Without new policies, the nation won't even come close to halving emissions by the end of this decade.
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A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change
Experts say it's not time to freak out — yet.
