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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2020 was the hottest year on record. We’ll remember it as one of the century’s coldest.
"Every year for the rest of your life will be one of the hottest in the record."
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Democrats flipped the Senate. So why is a Green New Deal still unlikely?
Can Biden accomplish his climate goals with a razor-thin majority?
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Democrats flip the Senate — illuminating a path forward on climate
Still, Democratic control of the Senate will be narrow and tenuous.
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What the Georgia Senate candidates think about climate change
Two runoff Senate races in the Peach State could determine the fate of American climate policy for years to come.
