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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Women just won big in New Mexico’s primary. Here’s what that means for climate change.
In the past year and a half, New Mexico has advanced some of the most ambitious climate change legislation in the nation. More could be on the way.
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The Atlantic hurricane season just started. It’s already breaking records.
This is the earliest the third named storm of the season has ever arrived.
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Cities are shutting down bikeshares during curfews, stranding their own residents
On Wednesday, CitiBike will be required to end service at 6 p.m. — two hours before the curfew begins.
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On top of everything, hurricane season is here and most Americans don’t have flood insurance
“You look at Carfax and figure out if your car has had a dinged bumper, but making one of the largest financial purchases of your life, like a house, you can’t figure out if it’s in a flood zone.”
