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.
Get out of your car and walk a little, and Joshua Tree NP will fill your desert flower needs just fine.
We're in a drought; is it a good idea to decommission California dams? Often enough, the answer is yes. Here's why.
The genetic map of the Joshua tree may hold hints as to how to keep the trees around a while longer.
Activist Erica Fernandez mobilized a community to oppose a gas pipeline while still in her mid-teens.
Hill climbed her redwood in December 1997 expecting to be up there for two weeks. She descended more than two years later.
Minerva Hoyt saw the desert being destroyed, and that made her angry.
Faced with an epidemic of incarceration, Sneed inspired the community to reinvent itself in the garden.
Wildlife advocates say the Feds haven't looked hard enough at the effects of military base expansion.
When Berkeley wanted to fill thousands of acres of the Bay, McLaughlin and two friends fought the power and won.
A Mexican wolf was caught in the Mojave in 1922. With their other habitat under threat, maybe they should come back.
A controversial logging project may kill or injure more than one percent of the owl's total population.
It's plugged, thank goodness, but there are still important things to keep in mind about the Aliso Canyon disaster.