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 House just passed the biggest climate spending bill ever
The $1.85 trillion budget reconciliation bill still has a long way to go. Here's what's in it.
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![President of the United States Joe Biden signs the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal, H.R. 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law at the White House in Washington, DC on November 15, 2021]()
![President of the United States Joe Biden signs the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal, H.R. 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law at the White House in Washington, DC on November 15, 2021]()
One surprising winner in Biden’s infrastructure bill: Biodiversity
Biden's infrastructure bill puts billions toward wildlife and ecosystems.
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![Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden on on day three of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.]()
![Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden on on day three of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.]()
Report exposes the shaky data undermining the world’s progress on climate change
As world leaders gather for COP26, an investigation from the Washington Post finds countries are seriously underreporting their emissions.
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The House just passed a major infrastructure bill. Here’s what’s in it.
The package focuses on “traditional” infrastructure, but some spending addresses emissions and climate resiliency.
