Zoya Teirstein-climate-health-reporter

Climate reporter focused on human health

Big Stories

How far-right groups exploit climate chaos to spread their agendas

Co-published by Grist and Huff Post

3M knowingly polluted waterways with forever chemicals for decades. Who pays for the clean up?

Grist

On the Blackfeet reservation, a tribal researcher is using trained dogs to sniff out environmental pollution

Grist (republished by Indian Country Today)

Climate connections: rising temperatures are influencing the spread of infectious diseases

Co-developed and co-published by Grist and the Associated Press

Cases of a deadly fungal disease are rising in the western United States. Climate change plays a role.

Grist (republished by Wired, Texas Monthly)

What one tribal school’s fight to eliminate PFAS says about Indian Country’s “forever chemical” problem

Grist (republished by Source New Mexico)

Video & Newsletters

Before Hurricane Laura, there was Katrina. What lessons does New Orleans have for coastal cities?

Parched, Grist’s limited-run newsletter about climate change and drought; The Saga of the Salton Sea, 2022.

Record High, Grist’s limited-run newsletter about climate change and extreme heat; How doctors treat extreme heat, 2023.

On Air

Zoya speaks with Here & Now's Scott Tong about chemical giant 3M's multi-billion dollar settlement of a lawsuit related to PFAS contamination of drinking water supplies around the country.

This segment aired on June 28, 2023.

Zoya speaks with NPR’s 1A about how the Inflation Reduction Act is changing America, August 2023.

As FEMA struggles to keep up with the magnitude and frequency of disasters, far right militias like the Oath Keepers are filling the vacuum to build trust and organize. Zoya joins The Marc Steiner Show for an in-depth look at this phenomenon.

Zoya is a guest on the Majority Report w/Sam Seder to discuss the wildfires in Maui and her recent reporting on climate-fueled diseases, August 2023.