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.
In January, Caltrans agreed to use safer methods to exclude nesting swallows from a highway construction project in Sonoma County, but the alternative measures used may still be affecting wildlife populations in the long term.
The agency that operates the electrical power grid for most of California forecasted last week that the state was in good shape for summer.
The Redwood National and State Parks have announced that their law enforcement staff arrested a local resident on charges of damaging ancient redwood trees in order to steal their valuable burl wood.
Sadly, now it looks like Southern California has its own infectious live oak disease to worry about.
OR-7, the first wild wolf in California since 1924, may have started a family north of the state line.
Glaciers and ice sheets in western Antarctica are melting, there's nothing we can do to stop it, and the result will be a 10-foot rise in sea level within the next century or two. That's according to new reports by NASA scientists scheduled for publica...
President Obama announced a set of new executive actions the White House will be taking to promote the domestic solar industry.
A grisly blunder Saturday by a tree-trimming crew in Oakland resulted in the deaths of black-crowned night heron chicks, and though the culprits are saying they didn't mean to cause any harm, I'm not buying it.
Inyo County's Board of Supervisors has made a whole lot of people who love the Owens Valley very happy.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to take a California beetle off the Endangered Species Act's Threatened list, but two leading environmental groups are charging that the move is based on politics rather than science.
The federal government announced approval of a second solar project on the tribe's lands.
This may undermine natural gas' usefulness as an alternative "bridge fuel."