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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29 storms and counting: The story behind the Atlantic’s super-active hurricane season
What was truly record-breaking about this season: the number of times major storms cut nearly identical paths through the Gulf Coast.
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Meet the experts handling Biden’s transition to the White House
These researchers, lawyers, and businesspeople will help the president-elect maximize the potential of executive action.
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Youth activists will push for climate action — even with a divided Congress
The Sunrise Movement and the American Conservation Coalition, two groups on opposite ends of the political spectrum, both aim to push members of Congress on the issue of climate change.
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Biden defeats Trump, ending 4 years of environmental destruction
The Democrat will soon have to face the most difficult hurdle yet: getting comprehensive climate policy through Congress, possibly without the aid of a Democrat-controlled Senate.