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.
Plans to log over 5,000 acres of burned trees in the Tahoe and Sierra national forests poses a serious threat to wildlife that depends on burned over forests. That's according to two environmental groups that sued the U.S. Forest Service Thursday to st...
Actor Dave Legeno's heat-related death in Death Valley serves as a reminder of the extreme danger the desert poses.
A new study commissioned by the Nevada Public Utilities Commission finds that rooftop solar panel owners taking part in the state's ongoing net metering program won't be raising the electric bills of their non-solar neighbors.
Monsoon season has started a little early in the Mojave Desert, and thunderstorms have been making their mark on the landscape.
The leaked document shows that a regional director doubts climate change's affect on the species.
A report suggests that the nation's largest municipal utility wants to find a way to charge solar customers with net metering contracts for use of the power grid.
A petition on behalf of two real estate developers' trade groups to remove the coastal California gnatcatcher from protection under the Endangered Species Act is based on questionable science, according to an expert on bird genetics at Occidental College.
Peter Marler, a UC Davis-based ornithologist who discovered that regional populations of songbirds can sing in distinct dialects, has died at age 86 of pneumonia.
A campaign to urge California counties not to work with a controversial federal agency accused of massive cruelty to wildlife is gaining traction, as Humboldt County's Board of Supervisors has agreed to discuss whether to renew the county's annual cont...
A group of environmental organizations is now formally asking Humboldt and Mendocino counties to join Sonoma and Marin counties to their south in cutting off contracts with the federal agency Wildlife Services.
In a day full of disappointing news coming out of SCOTUS, it's reassuring to know there are one or two things the highest court in the land can still get right.
A seemingly arcane shift in policy on the part of two federal agencies about enforcement of the Endangered Species Act has wildlife advocates ready to head to court, saying that the Obama administration is "eviscerating" protection for endangered and t...