Martha Pskowski covers climate change and the environment in Texas for Inside Climate News from her home-base in El Paso. She previously was an environmental reporter at the El Paso Times. She began her career as a freelance journalist in Mexico, reporting for outlets including The Guardian and Yale E360.
Martha grew up in Maryland and graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in Environmental Studies. She holds a master’s degree in Journalism and Latin American Studies from New York University and is a former Fulbright research fellow in Mexico. She received second place from the Society of Environmental Journalists in the Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, small, in 2024. She received the Bernhardt Labor Journalism prize in 2021.

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