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.
Sea level rise flooding the Delta will be incredibly disruptive. But could there be an upside?
As sea levels rise, the scale of the resulting changes coming to the Delta are truly staggering.
Sea level rise may take the present-day Delta away from us, but it was sea level rise that gave us the Delta in the first place.
A federal appeals court rules that the government paid enough attention to economic impacts when designating critical habitat for the green sturgeon.
The Bay Delta is a skein of distinct relationships that weave themselves together in this heart of California.
Citing irregularities in a June vote not to protect the tricolored blackbird, a wildlife group wants the state to reconsider.
The Bay Delta's white sturgeon was once lauded as a success story. Now it's declining anyway.
The headwaters of the North Fork of the Sacramento River are wild, accessible only by hiking on the tallest California mountain no one's heard of.
If there were any Delta fish tailor-made to withstand the drought, it would have to be the Sacramento perch. And yet it's almost certainly extinct in the Delta.
The confusing genetics of this endangered south Delta mammal teach us about more than half a million years of history.
The riparian brush rabbit, found in just a few patches of forest in the Delta, may be California's most endangered mammal.
The Threatened Delta smelt is famous, but there's another smelt in the Bay Delta whose decline is worrying wildlife partisans.