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.
For California Invasive Species Action Week (August 2-10), we're looking at a different problem species each weekday. Tuesday's topic: a species that's probably raiding your sugar bowl right now.
We kick off our weeklong observance of California Invasive Species Action Week with a look at what's probably the best-known invasive exotic species in California: the blue gum eucalyptus.
I don't think I'm the only one who's fallen out of the habit of expecting good times ahead. It's hard to imagine a utopian future for California when the state faces some of the toughest times in its history over the next 50 years. But really, if we're...
A group of independent scientists is speaking out in response to an order from a high-ranking U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official to not protect wolverines under the U. S. Endangered Species Act.
As California's lakes and ponds grow ever smaller in this third year of drought, the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife is warning that wild birds are likely to fall victim to a fatal disease linked to stagnant water, and they're asking for your h...
An Eastern Sierra water agency will be filing suit over the approval of a geothermal power plant expansion, saying the project poses a threat to the local water supply.
A Bay Area county not usually known as a hotspot for West Nile virus has undertaken a second round of pesticide spraying this year after finding mosquitoes infected with the virus, according to public health officials.
The U.S. House of Representatives this week passed a package of four bills that would drastically change the way the Federal government protects endangered and threatened species, but the White House has pledged to veto at least one of the four.
The California Fish and Game Commission may decide soon whether to add a freshwater fish found in just one Northern California lake to the state's list of Threatened species.
The city has installed only two percent of the rooftop solar that's feasible in the city.
The Santa Monica Mountains are once again home to California's official state amphibian. After a release of ready and willing tadpoles earlier this week, the mountain range that separates Los Angeles from the San Fernando Valley has a population of the...
Federal scientists said they don't really have enough data to answer questions about solar deaths.