The Ember That Carried Names In the year the last glacier tongue withdrew from the high valleys of the Andes, the people of Qillqana began to die twice. First came the ordinary death: heart stilled, breath finished, body laid among the…

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 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…