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.
The bill would add insurmountable hurdles to protecting new species.
The science is still out on whether a proposed solar power tower plant in Riverside County would pose too much risk to wildlife to justify its renewable energy benefits, they say.
Clark County officials are complaining about having spent around a million dollars a year since 2001 to protect the threatened species.
It seems like a good opportunity for reflection.
The discovery last week of a dead hawk in the hills between the Ocotillo Express Wind Facility and the Sunrise Powerlink has residents of the nearby town of Ocotillo concerned about how their local raptors are faring with more than 100 new wind turbine...
A piece elsewhere on the geology of the Santa Monica Mountains inadvertently offers the latest example of a favorite geographical myth: that mountain ranges mostly don't point east-west.
The Bureau of Land Management is now looking for public comment on a proposed 4,397-acre solar facility between the Mojave National Preserve and the Soda Mountains Wilderness Study Area, in an area that some describe as "core" undeveloped Mojave Desert...
A Southern California judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service paid enough attention to the welfare of Endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep when it assessed the environmental effects of an Imperial County wind facility near Anza-Borrego D...
A report released Monday offers human-interest-style case studies of Los Angeles solar installations ranging from skid row SRO hotels to the titans of L.A's flagship industry. And each case profiled shows that there's good reason to go solar in Los Ang...
CDFW is seeing to a trio of abandoned mountain lion cubs in Siskiyou County. But they may not be reintroduced into the wild.
A subsidiary of the nation's largest electrical power company was sentenced Friday over deaths of 14 golden eagles and more than 140 other protected birds at its wind facilities. The sentence marks the first successful prosecution of a wind energy comp...
Okay, this is cool: a Seattle-based startup is promiising that you'll be able to top off your phone or charge your camp light using the energy in flowing water -- but without a gigantic dam.