Zoya Teirstein
LATEST ARTICLES BY Zoya Teirstein
-
Environment
The climate vice president? What Tim Walz brings to the Harris ticket
August 9, 2024A progressive with a penchant for coalition building, Walz boasts state climate experience.
Read more -
Environment
The Supreme Court overturns Chevron doctrine, gutting federal environmental protections
July 6, 2024Scrapping the legal precedent could send a "convulsive shock" to decades of federal environmental, financial, and healthcare regulations.
Read more -
Environment
Global warming linked to a spate of rare disease outbreaks in 2023
January 4, 2024The temperature-sensitive pathogens that caught U.S. communities off guard are a grim preview of the future.
Read more -
Environment
The hidden death toll of flooding in Bangladesh sends a dark signal about climate and health
December 12, 2023New research links more than 150,000 infant deaths to 30 monsoons in the South Asian country.
Read more -
Environment
Europe begins 2023 with record-setting heat wave
January 23, 2023Climatologists are calling it “the most extreme heat wave in European history."
Read more -
Environment
Supreme Court decision could withdraw vital Clean Water Act protections
October 5, 2022Sackett v. EPA could roll back protections for more than 50 percent of the nation’s wetlands.
Read more -
Environment
December’s tornadoes show a country badly in need of disaster reform
January 5, 2022"Until local agencies have their capacity substantially expanded in essentially every community across the country, we’re going to keep running into problems."
Read more -
Environment
A surprising winner in Biden’s infrastructure bill: Biodiversity
December 1, 2021Wildlife groups, conservation nonprofits, and even hunting associations put pressure on Biden back when he was still a candidate for president to take a strong position on protecting biodiversity.
Read more
- 1
- 2