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.
I never thought about verdins much before this year. I knew they existed, ridiculously tiny songbirds not much more massive than the insects they eat. That was before I had them next to my desk for most of the workday.
A man who pled guilty to illegally trapping and killing dozens of bobcats and gray foxes in Lassen County was fined $5,000 and sentenced to a year's probation.
The 100-megawatt facility will be allowed to kill up to five golden eagles over a five-year period.
A task force charged with addressing the burgeoning issue of bird and bat deaths at the Ivanpah solar plant in California's desert has dismissed many recommendations.
A California native orchid once found from the Bay Area and Sierra Nevada northward into Oregon has declined in population so steeply that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature has declared the plant globally Endangered.
The federal government is seeking public comments on whether or not one of California's rarest and most photogenic predators should be listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
A federal agency has given the go-ahead to a power storage project adjacent to Joshua Tree National Park.
The California Energy Commission will be plowing millions of dollars into building almost 500 more electric car charging stations.
Pandering to scientific illiteracy isn't a new thing in Washington D.C. Every day in the nation's capital seems to bring its share of ludicrous statements and actions from people who ought to know better, from denial of the reality climate change to fo...
A group of individual conservationists and a national bird protection organization have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Caltech, UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are all receiving the multi-million dollar grants.
A bird sometimes called "California's passenger pigeon" is in worse trouble than some wildlife advocates suspected. According to a new survey, the population of tricolored blackbirds has dropped by 44 percent since 2011.