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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CNN and the New York Times skip climate change in the fourth Democratic debate
But thanks to Ellen DeGeneres, now we know all the candidates’ most unlikely friends
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Jane Fonda gets arrested for climate protest, plans to do it again
For the next 13 Fridays, the 81-year-old Academy Award winner will demonstrate on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to ask lawmakers to put an end to fossil fuel drilling.
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Elizabeth Warren’s new climate plan uses wildfire wisdom from tribes
Tribes want to use traditional knowledge to combat wildfires. But a number of practical obstacles stand in the way.
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Sea-level rise threatens 13 million Americans. Can FEMA help?
Managed retreat has been on the fringe of the climate change strategy since the 1980s. It’s about to have a moment.
