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Zoya Teirstein is a contributing writer from Grist.org.

Woman struggling to sleep at night (Getty Images/Motortion)

Study: Warming temperatures are eroding our ability to sleep

Zoya Teirstein
(Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

NYC wants more rooftop solar. Its fire code is getting in the way

Zoya Teirstein
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) listens during a committee meeting on Capitol Hill on October 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Why the Senate hasn’t made a climate deal yet

Zoya Teirstein
Cal firefighter Travis Moore lights a backfire along highway 50 as the Caldor Fire burns near Lake Tahoe, CA on Tuesday August 31, 2021. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

UN report warns climate change could spur 50% more wildfires by 2100

Zoya Teirstein
Natural gas flame on a stove (Robert Clare/Getty Images)

Your gas stove is warming the climate — even when it’s turned off

Emily Pontecorvo, Zoya Teirstein
A pigeon flies over a Exxon mobil gas station (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images)

Exxon pledges to cut emissions — but not from its oil

Zoya Teirstein
Tick on skin (Getty Images/nechaev-kon)

How mRNA technology could create a new vaccine — against ticks

Zoya Teirstein
An aerial photo shows damage, as cleanup efforts continue after tornado, hit Mayfield, Kentucky, United States on December 12, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

December’s tornadoes show a country desperately in need of disaster reform

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

Plastics, fertilizer, and synthetic rubber: Report calls out chemical industry’s use of fossil fuels

Zoya Teirstein
A young woman is standing in a forest at sunset (Getty Images)

One surprising winner in Biden’s infrastructure bill: Biodiversity

Zoya Teirstein
Capitol Hill, and logos of Chevron, BP, Exxon and Shell oil companies (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

What climate denial? Oil executives play dumb at major congressional hearing

Joseph Winters, Zoya Teirstein
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about combatting the coronavirus pandemic in the State Dining Room of the White House on September 9, 2021. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Meet the CEPP, the biggest federal climate policy you’ve never heard of

Zoya Teirstein
Poison Ivy (Getty Images/Ed Reschke)

Climate change is making poison ivy stronger and itchier

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

How Senate Democrats aim to pass climate policy without Republicans

Zoya Teirstein
Damage caused by the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers condominium building, Surfside, Miami Beach, Florida. (Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The Surfside tragedy could be a “bellwether moment” for managed retreat

Zoya Teirstein
Flames rise near homes during the Blue Ridge Fire on October 27, 2020 in Chino Hills, California. Strong Santa Ana Winds gusting to more than 90 miles per hour have driven the Blue Ridge Fire and Silverado Fire across thousands of acres, grounding firefighting aircraft, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee, and gravely injuring two firefighters. More than 8,200 wildfires have burned across a record 4 million-plus acres so far this year, more than double the previous record. (David McNew/Getty Images)

“A terrible idea”: Why fire scientists want you to skip the fireworks this Fourth of July

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

It’s not just your imagination — ticks are out of control this year

Zoya Teirstein
A damaged home in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

“There’s no alternative”: Louisiana’s ambitious plan to stay above water

Zoya Teirstein
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference about the opening of a COVID-19 vaccination site at the Hard Rock Stadium on January 06, 2021 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Florida Republicans want to stop rising seas — not climate change

Zoya Teirstein
Rep. Debra Haaland (D-NM), President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of the Interior, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resource, at the U.S. Capitol on February 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Leigh Vogel-Pool/Getty Images)

Deb Haaland isn’t as “radical” as some Republican senators think

Zoya Teirstein
U.S. President Donald Trump walks to the Oval Office while arriving back at the White House on December 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

The latest Trump EPA rule to get tossed? The “secret science” ban

Zoya Teirstein
Waterdrop on a green blade of grass reflecting our earth. (Getty Images)

Democrats flipped the Senate. So why is a Green New Deal still unlikely?

Zoya Teirstein, Shannon Osaka
David Perdue / Jon Ossoff (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

What the Georgia Senate candidates think about climate change

Zoya Teirstein
GREAT YARMOUTH, ENGLAND - JULY 19: The sun starts to rise behind Britain's largest offshore wind farm off the Great Yarmouth coastline on July 19, 2006 in Norfolk, England. The 30 turbines cost GBP75million and can generate enough power for 41,000 homes are seen by supporters as a clean and green way to generate electricity and a way of cutting down on harmful green house gas emmissions. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

6 reasons 2020 wasn’t as bad for climate change as you thought

Emily Pontecorvo, Zoya Teirstein
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