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.
A $25 billion plan to reengineer the Bay Delta would still harm fish and the Delta's beleaguered environment.
A Portland-based wind energy company that recently sued the federal government to keep its bird death data secret has been convicted in federal court over deaths of protected birds at two of its wind facilities in Wyoming.
All bobcats in three Southern California mountain ranges seem to shun roads whenever possible, but males run a higher risk of being killed by vehicular traffic, according to a recent study
A resident of the Sierra Nevada foothills was sentenced to probation and thousands of dollars in fines after being convicted on trophy deer poaching charges this week.
Mountain lions in the Santa Ana Mountains have become cut off from their neighbors in the nearby Peninsular Ranges by Interstate 15 and other development -- and that's bad for the big cats.
By a 76-16 vote, the U.S. Senate last night extended the federal Production Tax Credit for wind power facilities until the end of 2015, but the extension is unlikely to serve as an incentive for new wind turbines.
Turns out being independent-minded is a double-edged sword for the critically endangered California condor. According to a new study, condors that find their own food run a high risk of lead poisoning.
About 30,000 off-road vehicles descended on the Mojave Desert in California over Thanksgiving weekend this year, and many of those off-road vehicles ended up out of bounds in places they shouldn't have gone, according to the BLM.
Kern County is ready to approve an open-pit mine complex next to Red Rock Canyon State Park without reviewing the mine's environmental impact.
Activists charge that diseases from British Columbia fish farms are affecting wild salmon runs all along the Pacific Coast.
Satellite photos taken earlier this month show that illegal gill-net fishing is rampant in an area of the Sea of Cortez set aside for protection of the world's most endangered marine mammal.
It's not certain whether LA will get drier or wetter as a result of climate change, but what we do get will be more rain than snow.