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.
California has more than its share of endangered wildlife. Here are ten of the most-imperiled species.
The Army Corps of Engineers did an about face on the Dakota Access Pipeline. But they're about to face more opposition.
The world's rarest marine mammal has seen its population drop by half in the last year, and will go extinct if extreme measures aren't taken to protect it.
Truly dark places in California are harder and harder to find. But we found some.
If you thought all Californians were welcoming the state's new gray wolf population with open arms, think again.
Green types are lauding federal agencies these days, but this agency is being shut out of the lovefest. And for good reason.
Few expected one of the most prominent sources of opposition to the Trump administration to be the federal government itself.
The concept of wilderness as unpopulated land assumes Native people are either subhuman or nonexistent. It needs to be rethought.
Nobody goes to Joshua Tree anymore: It's too crowded. Here are some great places for real desert rats to check out instead.
Most Californians love going to the beach, but a new study says rising costs are keeping them away.
Pumas and other wildlife are still being exposed to deadly second-generation rat poisons, prompting groups to call for widening a 2014 ban.
The Trump administration may prove to be one of the most catastrophic eras for the environment in U.S. history.