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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The names of places in the California Desert can tell interesting stories about those places' history, their landscape, and their importance to people who lived here for centuries.
Sabretooth cat fossils have been found during construction of the Desert Sunlight solar project in the California desert, and some feds seems pretty happy about it.
Even when you leave your furry loved ones at home, hot weather like we're going to get this weekend can put them in danger. And that's avoidable if you take a few easy precautions.
Yes, you can go camping in the desert in the summer. No, you don't have to have a death wish to do so.
An unpleasant aspect of shutting down Southern California's only nuclear power plant started Monday, as plant operator Southern California Edison (SCE) laid the groundwork to begin laying off about 600 plant workers.
L.A.'s Feed-in Tariff program, in which rooftop solar owners can make money selling unused energy to the LADWP, launched today.
Though the Obama administration has recently renewed its commitment to approve more wind facilities on public lands as part of the Climate Action Plan it released this week, a new study indicates that wind development in California has far fewer enviro...
The National Weather Service is warning that it's going to be hot this weekend.
With the cancellation of one of the biggest solar projects proposed for the California desert, the utility-scale solar boom of 2009 continues to falter. And analysts deep in the energy industry are taking notice.
A 450-megawatt solar project may break ground as early as next year at Edwards Air Force Base in the western Mojave Desert. The project, now undergoing environmental review, would sell power to utilities outside the military base.
His long-awaited Climate Action Plan contains some overdue good ideas -- and some outdated bad ones.
Friday is the first day of summer, and summer is when Californians tend to use the most energy to keep those air conditioners chugging along. With that in mind, the California Energy Commission is offering a few handy tips for those of us looking to tr...