thanate asked: What kind of research do you tend to do wh...

thanate asked: What kind of research do you tend to do when you're writing about things that take place in a notably different climate and ecology from the one you're used to?

If it's a real world climate and ecology, I'd try to find articles or biographies written by people who live there, or visited there. National Geographic can be very handy for this. If it's a created world ecology, you can do the same thing for its closest real-world equivalent. You basically need to know enough to gi...