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 shadow of a tick appears on a green leaf.]()
![The shadow of a tick appears on a green leaf.]()
It’s not just your imagination — ticks are out of control this year
Here's why, and what climate change has to do with it.
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![Collage: a hand putting hundred dollar bills into a hurricane and wildfire covered planet Earth.]()
![Collage: a hand putting hundred dollar bills into a hurricane and wildfire covered planet Earth.]()
Beleaguered by disaster damages, the U.S. may finally start spending on resilience
The Biden administration aims to direct billions to pre-disaster planning. But is it enough?
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Here’s what’s in the $928 billion GOP infrastructure counteroffer
It’s all bridges, no climate.
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![An Earth cracked open like an egg with mosquitoes, an asthma inhaler, daffodils, a hospital bed, and a tick coming out of it]()
![An Earth cracked open like an egg with mosquitoes, an asthma inhaler, daffodils, a hospital bed, and a tick coming out of it]()
Doctors put a price tag on the annual health impacts of climate change. It’s $820 billion.
And that’s an underestimate.
