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.
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Two bird-protection groups reaffirm their stand on one of the most polarizing contemporary wildlife issues.
The push to make L.A. more energy independent is gaining steam, as a group of local, state, and federal elected officials called for California's largest city to meet a fifth of its peak power needs with local solar within six years.
Unless we get some rain this winter, and a lot of it, we may well face some serious power shortages as we climb into the triple-digit days of summer.
CEQA, the state's foremost environmental law, no longer applies to the state's drought response.
The agency will stop using bird netting that ended up killing protected cliff swallows in Sonoma County.
Gizmodo raves about a large glass orb that it says may change the way we use solar power even offering the possibility of generating power from moonlight. Sadly, though the device is pretty nifty, the numbers don't support the hype.
Very old trees may remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than young ones.
A researcher has obtained the first-ever photographic evidence of a bobcat in a park in the Montecito Heights area of Northeast LA.
A California legislator is seeking to ban sales of filter-tipped cigarettes in the state.
The passenger pigeon's extinction 100 years ago has a California parallel, a similar story that played out at more or less the same time.
Despite earlier gloomy prognostications that California's greenhouse gas cap and trade system would violate the law and tank the state's economy, the program's first year has been a remarkable success according to a new report by the Environmental Defe...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to open two Southern California condor refuges to the public.