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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STIs can save the planet. No, not those STIs.
Seven ways humanity can reduce the risk of unplanned planetary disaster.
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Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight, due in part to climate change
The clock, a symbol created in 1947 to represent humankind’s proximity to global catastrophe, is now just 100 seconds to midnight for the first time ever.
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Judge writes blistering dissent as kids’ climate lawsuit gets tossed
"It is as if an asteroid were barreling toward the Earth and the government decided to shut down our only defenses."
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Climate change is forcing a rift in the Murdoch family
Fans of HBO’s blockbuster TV drama Succession, a thinly veiled dramatization of the Murdoch family’s exploits, know the younger Murdoch’s public stand would make for extremely good television.
