Paige Vega
Senior climate and Future Perfect editor
Paige Vega is Vox’s senior climate and Future Perfect editor. She steers the newsroom’s coverage of climate and biodiversity, science, and health, and also edits stories at our Future Perfect section, where we explore the best frameworks to do more good in the world. She helps oversee the Future Perfect Fellowship and the work of fellows who focus on anything from climate to biosecurity to global health, AI, and more.
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 Society of Environmental Journalists and Vox Media’s Writers’ Workshop. She lives in southwestern Colorado, where she hikes, skis, and gardens at 6,512 feet.
You can email her at paige.vega@vox.com or find her on various social media platforms with the handle @PaigeBlank.
Latest articles by Paige Vega
Skimo enters the Winter Olympics at the most tragic time.
2025 has felt brutal for climate policy in the US — but the bigger picture is surprisingly promising.
Meet the Future Perfect 25: The Innovators.
Meet the Future Perfect 25: The Thinkers
The only way to save them is to put people first.
Climate change is rewriting America’s map of disease — through bug bites.
Trump’s EPA wants to claw back grants for a solar panel program.
Even the most determined opposition can’t stop the clean energy revolution.
The future for our planet looks bleak. Here’s why it’s not.
What you can expect from our coverage of the natural world.