Laura Paskus is a writer based in New Mexico. She’s 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. Now, she’s working on a new book about New Mexico’s rivers that will be out in 2028.

Laura 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.

She also produced and hosted “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future” for eight seasons on New Mexico PBS. You can still find that program on the PBS App or YouTube. (And if there’s one thing you’re going to watch from that time of her career, let it be “Ancestral Connections.”)

There are a few ways to keep up with her work:

• Sign up for her newsletter on Substack;

• Visit New Mexico Rivers Rising;

• Find some recent work, including “Climate change, overuse send the Middle Rio Grande into ‘dire’ situation” at Source NM and “Connecting Time, Place, and People” about the “Acoma method” of archaeology at El Palacio.

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