As another ecological disaster struck the simulated Arctic spread across our table top, every player groaned. I’d retained one sea ice card in reserve so I only had to lose one from my marine ecosystem; I tried to jostle the species that had been supported by the lost ice into other positions along still thriving […]
Liz O’Connell for Frontier Scientists – A Ponderosa Pine grove towers over my house roof. The 100 foot trees grow naturally and swiftly east of the Cascades in Oregon. Before Thanksgiving, extreme winds blew over the Cascade mountain barrier and whipped around central Oregon. The night after, I checked my yard from a window—dried pine […]