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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A malaria-like disease spread by ticks is moving into Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia
The tick that causes Lyme can also spread babesiosis — and researchers fear doctors in the mid-Atlantic don't know about it.
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Project 2025 was extreme. Trump’s first 100 days have been even more radical.
The president's environmental policies mirror the far-right blueprint — and push the boundaries of the Constitution.
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FEMA moves to end one of its biggest disaster adaptation programs
In an internal FEMA memorandum obtained by Grist, the Trump administration announced its plans to dismantle the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.
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A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate-health funding
Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.