Flames devour the clouds, while we stare in open horror. I do not know if there will be any more rainbows during my lifetime, because I do not know if there will be any more rain. I heard a rumor that some corporation signed a deal that was read to grant the cloud herders the right to do this, to vaporize our clouds and chase the vapors into their ( Read more... )

Whipspring is an amazing wood, and demand for it far outstrips supply. We have tried sending it elsewhere to grow, you see, but it never spreads. What we've planted stays, and that is it. The gentle lemurites live in the whipspring stands, and we've signed a pact that they will always have adequate habitat for their numbers. The range and breeding ( Read more... )

The environment and sex was all tangled up in her mind, like strands of hair winding around her wrists or the plastic choking the life out of young trees whose trunks would never grow straight. Seeing an oil spill on the news was like a punch to the ovaries, and it robbed her of herself for days, leaving her walking hunched over to protect the ( Read more... )

The baby birds popped their heads out of the olympo tree to watch the parade of beasts go by, sad that they were too young to join in. Their mama and papa both joined the winding parade as it trumpeted and sang and stomped its way through the forest. They never came back. After it was dark again and they should be sleeping, the baby birds could not ( Read more... )

The algal bloom was a deep purple, and the town cheered. Their remediation had been successful; they could incorporate a town on the edge of the lake and fish in it and bathe in its water and drink from it (after proper filtration, of course). They had been a wandering town for so long, with three failed remediation attempts behind them, that this ( Read more... )

The manta ray soared above him, and it was only when it kept going that he figured something was wrong. He began the long surfacing process. When his head broke above the sea, he stared. The fish, the manta rays, the coral reefs, all were inverted and swimming through the air with no apparent distress. He thought he must be hallucinating, or turned ( Read more... )

It was the sound of crickets and frogs that startled her awake. She was in one of the most antiseptic sleeping rooms, and she knew that there were no nature tapes of the forest--they'd found those didn't help the subjects. There were wave sounds and whale song and white noise, but no tapes of the forest at night. This was not part of the experiment ( Read more... )

The effect of the medication on him was unexpected. A single fungicide that should have caused some illness, but no lasting harm, killed him. The infestation that covered his skin was not affected. In fact, it grew rapidly, and we had to seal the lab facility and irradiate it repeatedly until the organism finally died. We are still trying to figure ( Read more... )

William the Silent frowned when the stadtholders came before him with their complaints, but he saw the way that it would go. Their dikes were failing, one and all, and there was only one option before them that they saw: to buttress themselves against the world. His military advisors, chomping at the bit to actually fight a war and justify their ( Read more... )