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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Why the return of earmarks could be good news for the planet
With most of the president’s climate agenda stalled in Congress, every ounce of climate spending counts.
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Dengue, Lyme, and cholera: how climate change is spurring disease
The IPCC's latest climate report warns governments to prepare as diseases move into new regions.
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As scientists sound the alarm on climate, Biden’s State of the Union barely mentions it
Instead, the president touted the release of “60 billion barrels of oil from reserves around the world."
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UN report warns climate change could spur 50% more wildfires by 2100
Governments are spending too much money on fire suppression and not enough on prevention.
