The Last Olive Grove In 2047, the olive groves of Puglia no longer bore fruit in summer. The Great Mediterranean Heat Dome of ’43 had lasted 112 days without break, pushing soil temperatures past 50°C and killing root systems that had…
The Salmon Run
The Salmon Run In 2048, the Columbia River no longer reached the sea in summer. What had once been a roaring artery from the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific now trickled through cracked basalt canyons in eastern Washington, diverted upstream by…
Vein of the Ancestors
Vein of the Ancestors In 2147, Neo-Seoul’s Gangnam Sprawl had become the world’s largest vertical bio-district. Tower after tower rose like bamboo engineered from bone-matrix scaffolds, their outer skins pulsing with translucent vascular webs that fed nutrient mist to sky-farms growing…