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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Can’t eat gluten? Pesticides and nonstick pans might have something to do with it, study says
Researchers found that children with high levels of pesticides in their blood are twice as likely to develop celiac.
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Trump’s EPA just introduced a historic CO2 rule for planes. Wait, what?
The new standards don’t do much to compel the aviation industry to reduce emissions.
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My dad writes letters. The pandemic has given them new meaning.
A couple of months ago, my dad sat down to write me a letter. By the time he finished writing it, the world had irreversibly changed.
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Why climate skeptics are less likely to wear coronavirus masks
A new poll shows concern about climate change correlates with the way people are responding to the virus.
