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.
1.8 million acres of the California Desert will be protected in three new National Monuments.
OK, this time we really mean it: the Palen Solar project in Riverside County is dead. Probably.
Malheur's occupiers tried to take our public lands with a six-gun. The Coastal Commission wants to do the same thing with a fountain pen.
We're glad to admit we were wrong when we suggested the Delta smelt might already be extinct. We just wish we were a lot wronger.
A controversial 2015 report suggested logging could increase the state's water supply. Wrong.
There are new and fearsome predators in the Santa Monica Mountains. Try not to hurt yourself squeeing.
They say they want to take the land back for "The People," but they don't mean you.
Devoted birders can visit plenty of places right here in the California Desert to get their bird on.
Sage grouse politics, a performance review for the USFWS, and other stories that should have been big news in 2015 -- but weren't.
Of the hundreds of stories we've brought you during 2015, these are the ten that all of you found the most compelling.
An infrared aerial video shot above Aliso Canyon gives a startling glimpse at the magnitude of SoCalGas's ongoing methane leak at Porter Ranch.
A researcher studying the effects of rat poison on wildlife found his family's dog poisoned in an apparent attempt to stop his work.