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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La Niña has arrived. That’s bad news for wildfires and hurricanes.
The conditions that led to a La Niña formation have already influenced this year’s unprecedented hurricane and wildfire seasons.
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56 days before the election, Trump bans offshore drilling off three Republican states
“Nobody knows where this came from.”
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Emissions from airplanes nearly doubled in two decades
The coronavirus pandemic is likely to be a hiccup in the aviation industry’s upward trajectory.
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Who’s advising Joe Biden on climate? His former rivals.
For the Democratic nominee, the optics of how he approaches climate action are almost as important as the climate policy his team puts forward.
