Chris Clarke
Chris Clarke was KCET's Environment Editor until July 2017. He is a veteran environmental journalist and natural history writer. He lives in Joshua Tree.
Few significant water uses are so ostentatious and arguably unnecessary as golf.
The largest entirely free-flowing river in California is among the most-threatened rivers in the United States, according to American Rivers.
California might have broken another solar record, with 6,000 megawatts of solar flowing into the grid.
Mendocino County has decided to hold off on renewing its contract with the predator-killing agency Wildlife Services.
California water use numbers are just really, really big, so minor uses can sound deceptively large.
An endangered vole that scientists once thought was extinct will be going through a rite of passage next week.
A whole lot of California species are being considered for protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Putting money into free solar for the state's poorest residents could give the state more solar for its buck.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is announcing that it won't add the Humboldt marten to the Endangered Species list.
The drought is hurting Mono Lake, but if not for the decades-long campaign to save it, it'd be dead now. So there's that.
Life in California may change quite a bit after Governor Brown's emergency Executive Order this week.
We have better, more solid data on planets outside our solar system than on eagle deaths at wind energy plants in California.