Paige Vega
Climate Editor
Paige Vega is Vox’s climate editor. She steers the team’s coverage of the climate crisis, the environment, solutions and adaptations and the energy transition. She writes at the intersection of climate, nature and communities and is fascinated by notions of coexistence. Her work has been featured in High Country News, The Atlantic, Mother Jones and The Guardian, among others, and has been recognized by The Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology.
Prior to joining Vox, Paige spent nearly a decade at High Country News magazine, a publication that covers the Western United States. She also currently serves as a mentor for The Uproot Project, a network for environmental journalists of color, and teaches journalism to undergraduate students in southwestern Colorado, where she lives, skis and gardens at 6,512 feet.
You can email her at [email protected] or find her on various social media platforms with the handle @PaigeBlank.
Latest articles by Paige Vega
If even Death Valley is in trouble, what does that mean for the rest of us?
How climate change transforms our reproductive lives, from menstruation to fertility to pregnancy.
As disasters displace more people around the world, our connection to place becomes more tenuous.
Eclipses inspire awe, create opportunities for science — and cause angst among energy-grid operators.
This and more reader questions on climate change, explained.
Climate activist Bill McKibben on how to make sense of COP28: “Let’s make that concession hurt.”
COP28 takes place against an apocalyptic backdrop. From Appalachia to Malawi, these communities offer a measure of hope.