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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A solar power project on a Nevada Indian reservation that will supply Los Angeles with electricity has been sold by its owners before the bulldozers even reached the site.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is looking for public comment on a proposal to allow a NorCal wind turbine installation to kill an eagle each year on average over a period of five years, in what may turn out to be the first permit of its kind grante...
The state's Public Utilities Commission just released its draft evaluation of an increasingly popular incentive for rooftop solar, and that draft has solar advocates seeing red.
The heavy rains that hit parts of the desert in recent weeks have created a spectacle that doesn't happen every year: a fall blooming season in the Joshua Tree National Park.
Today is the anniversary of one of the best things ever to happen to the deserts of the Southwest.
Southern California Edison execs are likely breathing a sigh of relief this week after a decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but a proposal before a state agency may not have the same effect.
In a test announced by NRG Energy Tuesday, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System successfully delivered power to the grid for the first time.
The Ivanpah solar project's owners reported seven birds found dead at the plant in August, at least one of them with burn injuries that may have been caused by the plant's concentrated solar energy. More such injuries have reportedly been occurring thi...
Urban lights have encroached on the county's dark skies since the mid-20th Century, but there are still a lot of stars to gaze at -- enough that some locales are home to astro-tourism businesses.
Four new California lizard species have been described in a new scientific paper.
The Palm Springs City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to hire a consultant to craft a city-wide solar plan, with the goal of generating at least 5 megawatts of power to offset energy use in the city's municipal buildings.
San Francisco is the most energy-efficient city in the state, according to a new ranking by a national energy efficiency advocacy group. But the rest of California's cities didn't do so well in the ranking.