For seven years on NMPBS, Laura Paskus, Senior Producer of “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present, and Future,” has covered all aspects of climate change, From the oil and gas industry’s greenhouse gas emissions, to how human-caused warming affects our rivers, forests and public health.  

In the special, “Loving Our Changing Homelands,” she explores the role that love must play in adapting to a changing climate. 

NMiF airs on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME HD) on Friday, Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 15 at 7 a.m. and streaming on the PBS video app.  

NMiF Segments
‘We’ve been here since time immemorial’
and
‘If we're static, that is unsustainable

Correspondent
Laura Paskus  

Guest
Phoebe Suina (Pueblo of Cochiti), Hydrologist & Owner, High Water Mark

Healing and Adapting with the Land
Correspondent

Laura Paskus

Guest
Paula Garcia, executive director, NM Acequia Association

Responding to Climate Change
Correspondent
Laura Paskus

Guest
Theresa Pasqual, director, Tribal Historic Preservation Office  

'Being One with Everything'  
Correspondent
Laura Paskus

Guest
Sister Joan Brown, executive director, New Mexico & El Paso Interfaith Power and Light

Rematriating Seeds in the Face of Change
Correspondent

Laura Paskus

Guest
Aaron Lowden, farmer, Pueblo of Acoma  

Host
Laura Paskus

New Mexico in Focus is the New Mexico PBS prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues, and people shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest. NMiF takes a multi-layered look at social, political, economic health, education, and art issues and explores them in-depth with a critical eye to give them context beyond the "news of the moment."

NMPBS Executive Producer, Public Affairs, is Jeff Proctor. New Mexico in Focus's senior producer for public affairs is Lou DiVizio. “Our Land” Senior Producer is Laura Paskus. The producer of New Mexico in Focus is Antonio Sanchez, and co-producer is Kathy Wimmer.

Funding for New Mexico in Focus is provided by the McCune Charitable Foundation and Viewers Like You.

Funding for the Your New Mexico Government Project comes from the Thornburg Foundation and New Mexico Local News Fund.

The Neeper Natural History Programming Fund for KNME-TV provides funding for Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present & Future.