Laura Paskus is a writer based in New Mexico. She started her journalism career at High Country News in 2002 and worked for print, online, radio, and television news outlets, covering the most important environmental issues of her generation, including climate change, wildfire, water, and the military’s contamination of groundwater with PFAS.

Most recently, she produced and hosted “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future” for eight seasons on New Mexico PBS. You can find that program on the PBS App or YouTube.

She’s also the author of At the Precipice: New Mexico’s Changing Climate and editor of Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth.

If you’re interested in climate change, water, and other environmental issues in the southwestern United States, there are a few ways to keep up with her writing and interviews:

• Sign up for her newsletter on Substack,

• Listen to her podcast with fellow reporter Andy Lyman — the Lesser Known New Mexico Podcast — on Substack, Apple, or Spotify,

• Check out commentaries about environmental issues and climate change at Source New Mexico, including “New Mexico’s rivers need their waters.”