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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4 encouraging ways climate politics went mainstream in 2019
The science has never been bleaker, but progress is afoot.
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Shrinking budgets, rising seas: How local newsrooms can cover climate change
Grist interviewed three journalists in different stages of leading the climate coverage charge in their respective local newsrooms.
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Is the tide turning in favor of a Blue New Deal?
The clearest sign that ocean research is starting to impact policy discussions is Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren’s new ocean policy proposal.
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We investigate Trump’s claim that people are flushing toilets ‘10 times, 15 times’
Is the president suffering from a gastrointestinal condition that forces him to flush upwards of 10 times per bowel movement?