At the Precipice

Laura Paskus is an environmental journalist and a correspondent whose work has been widely published. She is the producer of New Mexico In Focus's series "Our Land: New Mexico's Environmental Past, Present, and Future.

Paskus illuminates the devasting impacts of climate change on New Mexico. These lessons are important for all decision-makers in the American Southwest."--Bradley Udall, senior water and climate research scientist at the Colorado Water Institute "As Laura Paskus makes clear, the stakes of climate change in the American Southwest couldn't be higher. Deeply reported and vividly written, At the Precipice is an important contribution to the literature of our reckless age."--Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History "Climate change is global, but it is also surely local. Paskus shares the science and her love for imperiled New Mexico in a way that brings this story to our own doorsteps."--John Fleck, coauthor of Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River