Author Laura Paskus To Discuss New Mexico’s Changing Climate And What It Means In Library Zoom Event Thursday

Author Laura Paskus is featured in Thursday Zoom event presented by Los Alamos Public Libraries. Courtesy photo

COUNTY NEWS

From our forests to our farm fields, reservoirs to rivers, the impacts  of climate change are obvious all around the state of New Mexico. How does warming intensify  environmental problems, exacerbate inequity, and change how we relate to our landscapes? And what hope is there for the future? Join the discussion with Los Alamos Public Libraries and author and journalist Laura Paskus in this live-streamed program via Zoom, at 7pm, Thursday  July 8. Register on the library events calendar at https://laconm.libcal.com/event/7838004.  

Laura Paskus is a longtime reporter based in Albuquerque. Currently, she is the environment  reporter for New Mexico PBS, where she produces the monthly series, “Our Land: New  Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future,” covers climate and the environment for  “New Mexico In Focus,” and has been looking into the military’s contamination of groundwater  with PFAS. Her book “At the Precipice: New Mexico’s Changing Climate,” was published in  September 2020 by the University of New Mexico Press.