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.
There's an infographic going around lately that claims to show the relative amounts of water used by four different sources of electrical power.
When last we checked in on the proposed Palen solar project, its builders were asking the California Energy Commission to restart hearings on the project.
The Genesis Solar Energy Project has gone online in the eastern desert of Riverside County.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that a shrub found in just four places in the Mojave Desert still warrants its Endangered status, despite a petition from a conservative group to reduce the plant's status to Threatened.
Supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy have pointed to claims that stocking cattle on desert lands can actually improve the desert and help mitigate the effects of global warming. But a new study pulls the rug out from under those claims.
A bill in Sacramento would ban the use of drift gillnets in California waters due to what opponents call an unacceptably high level of harm the nets cause to marine mammals, sea turtles, and other non-target wildlife.
California Governor Jerry Brown raised the stakes in the state's response to the ongoing drought Friday, and reaction to the move from environmentalists is decidedly mixed.
Good news for frogs and their admirers: the US Fish and Wildlife Service has granted protection to three species of frogs in California -- or more precisely, two frogs and a toad -- under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
a Native tribe that lives along the Klamath River in Northern California is collaborating with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore California condors to the North Coast.
For the first time ever scientists have charted the genome of the golden eagle, and what they've found may shoot down one proposed way of making wind turbines safer for the huge birds of prey.
In a move that could have ramifications in drought-stricken California, a group representing irrigators in the Columbia and Snake river basins want to use an obscure federal law to prevent new protection of the area's salmon and steelhead populations.
Now that the festivities are mostly over for the year, I'll let you in on a little secret: I don't think much of Earth Day.