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Zoya Teirstein

Zoya Teirstein is a contributing writer from Grist.org.

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An environmental health specialist and entomologist for the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness displays a mosquito collected earlier in the day on August 25, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

How climate change is expanding the reach of EEE, a rare and deadly mosquito-borne illness

Zoya Teirstein
A woman sleeps with her baby in the maternity ward of a hospital on August 14, 2009 in Goroka in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. (Jason South/Fairfax Media via Getty Images)

Pregnant in a warming climate: A lethal “double risk” for malaria

Zoya Teirstein
Children cross road after school through the waterlogged streets after heavy rainfalls in Dhaka, Bangladesh on September 05, 2022. (Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The hidden death toll of flooding in Bangladesh sends a grim signal about climate and health

Zoya Teirstein
Man Speaking On Energy and Climate (Getty Images/Laurence Dutton)

Climate data can save lives. Most countries can’t access it

Zoya Teirstein
Paramedics taking patient on stretcher from ambulance to hospital (Getty Images/JazzIRT)

How climate change is fueling alcohol-related hospitalizations

Zoya Teirstein
Tick on a leaf (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

A brain-swelling illness spread by ticks is on the rise in Europe

Zoya Teirstein
The sun sets behind the Statue of Liberty as it is partially obscured by heat waves from the exhaust of a passing ferry on May 31, 2020, in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Extreme heat will cost the US $1 billion in health care costs — this summer alone

Zoya Teirstein
U.S. President Joe Biden (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Climate change could spur severe economic losses, Biden administration says

Zoya Teirstein
Climate activists gather to protest demanding President Biden stop the Willow Project by unfurling a banner on Lafayette Square in front of the White House on January 10, 2023 in Washington D.C. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The dubious economic calculus behind the Willow project

Zoya Teirstein, Jake Bittle
Faucet with Water Drip (Getty Images)

EPA proposes first-ever limits on PFAS in drinking water

Zoya Teirstein
Blanket of smog covers the city as air pollution increases due to the ongoing wildfires around the village of Kharyyalakh in Sakha, Russia on August 13, 2021. (Ivan Nikiforov/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Boreal wildfires in 2021 released more carbon emissions than any other fire this century

Zoya Teirstein
Sun beams shinning underwater on the tropical coral reef (Getty Images/Tunatura)

UN reaches historic agreement to protect the world’s oceans

Zoya Teirstein
Pumpjack at oil industry against cloudy sky during sunset in North Dakota, USA (Getty Images)

Why North Dakota is preparing to sue Minnesota over clean energy

Zoya Teirstein
In an aerial view, floodwaters cover an agricultural area after the Salinas River overflowed its banks on January 13, 2023 in Salinas, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Homes in flood zones are overvalued by billions, study finds

Zoya Teirstein
A picture taken on December 6, 2016 shows chickens at a henhouse near Loon-Plage. France raised its risk level for avian flu to "high" after new cases of the "highly pathogenic" H5N8 strain of the virus were detected (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)

As climate change disrupts ecosystems, a new outbreak of bird flu spreads to mammals

Zoya Teirstein
Skyline of Minneapolis taken at sunrise during the polar vortex with temperatures of minus -30, Minnesota, America (Getty Images/Joe Daniel Price)

Minnesota to require 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040

Zoya Teirstein
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is sworn in after he won the speakership on the 15th ballot on Saturday, January 7, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

What the House speaker’s deal with ultraconservatives means for climate

Zoya Teirstein
A child remains at an area affected by a drought on Earth Day in the southern outskirts of Tegucigalpa on April 22, 2016. (ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images)

The deadly link between diarrheal disease and climate change

Zoya Teirstein
Heatwave hot sun (Getty Images/chuchart duangdaw)

Europe kicks off 2023 with a record-setting heat wave

Zoya Teirstein
Mud is seen on land that was under the Salton Sea a few years ago on January 1, 2019 near Calipatria, California, United States. (David McNew/Getty Images for Lumix)

Salton Sea public health disaster gets a $250 million ‘shot in the arm’

Zoya Teirstein
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. ( Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images)

Transmission impossible: Are Democrats punting on permitting reform?

Zoya Teirstein
View of the downtown Phoenix, Arizona city skyline as seen from South Mountain Park (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Report: Human health is ‘at the mercy of fossil fuels’

Zoya Teirstein
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Northeast drought endangers Massachusetts’ cranberry harvest

Zoya Teirstein
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Here’s what’s in the Senate’s $369 billion climate and energy bill

Julia Kane, Emily Pontecorvo, Zoya Teirstein
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