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Laura Paskus Writes About Climate Change in New Mexico

Cover for the book "At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate".

August 28, 2020 – Our Land producer and NMiF correspondent Laura Paskus has authored a new book. At the Precipice: New Mexico’s Changing Climate looks at the state’s fragile place in a warming natural world. NMiF producer Matt Grubs sits down with Paskus to talk about how the impact of climate change on New Mexico…

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All We’ve Surveyed: Five Years After the Gold King Mine Spill

A gold-tinted river flows.

By Laura Paskus Five years ago, crews reopening an abandoned mine in the mountains of southern Colorado breached a containment wall, spewing three million gallons of mining waste into a tributary of the Animas River. Given the mine’s alpine location—which averages 15 feet of snow each year—fieldwork is limited and conditions can change drastically between…

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