Articles by Staff Writer Zoya Teirstein
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Hurricanes are personal for this disaster researcher
Surviving Hurricane Katrina gave Daniel Aldrich's research a new focus: understanding how disasters shape the politics of a place.
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What back-to-back storms did to Lake Charles, Louisiana
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. My name is Zoya Teirstein, and today we’re going to be talking about a place one journalist dubbed, “the most unfortunate city in the United States.” It’s been just over four years since Hurricane Laura slammed into southwest Louisiana just shy of Category 5 status — the […]
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Can the US census keep up with climate-driven displacement?
Four years after a string of disasters plagued one Louisiana town, its residents are still on the move.
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How climate change is expanding the reach of EEE, a rare and deadly mosquito-borne illness
Eastern equine encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease with a high mortality rate, has been spreading in the Northeast as temperatures rise.
