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.
Five new Northern California coastal properties and an ecologically important group of offshore rocks in the O.C. join the state's largest National Monument.
In 2000, environmentalists blew a chance to support traditional Native practices restoring the landscape of Death Valley.
Water, wingnuts, wildlife, and Washington DC figured large in our 2016 coverage.
These ten stories captured your attention in 2016.
Modern society harms the desert in many ways, but the most serious threat is ignorance.
It’s likely that Dianne Feinstein won’t be remembered for the desert lands she helped save, but for the damage she did to the Bay and Delta.
Better fencing could have directed P-39 to a nearby tunnel crossing, say biologists
In order to understand the desert and the peoples who lived there from time immemorial, you have to understand what deserts lack most.
Native people found treatments for many common ailments in the plants with which they shared the landscape.
It's been an eventful few days at the Standing Rock Reservation. Here's what it's looked like.
Five years in the making, the state's plan for recovering its new gray wolf population is getting applause and criticism.
Sunday’s action by the Army Corps was huge. But that “black snake” is still wriggling.