About Laura Paskus
Laura Paskus is a longtime writer and producer based in New Mexico. She started her journalism 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.
From 2017 - 2025, she produced and hosted “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future” on New Mexico PBS. You can find that program on the PBS App or YouTube. Recently, she launched New Mexico Rivers Rising.
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.