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 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.”