Laura Paskus is a longtime reporter based in New Mexico. She started her career at High Country News in 2002 and has 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 work:
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,
Find her recent story about the Rio Grande on the World Wildlife Fund website (and stay tuned for more stories online and in the print magazine), and read her conversation with Catherine Coleman Flowers about the EPA’s attacks on environmental justice,
Check out commentaries about environmental issues and climate change at Source New Mexico, including “New Mexico’s rivers need their waters.”
