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.
Barker Dam, built in 1900 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has seen an explosion of graffiti since around October.
Imperial County Sheriffs have arrested a construction manager for the project after he allegedly threatened a project opponent.
A painful step on a cactus leads writer Chris Clarke down the path of explaining the fearsome plant family's range of weapons.
Cactus spines can hurt and can actually pose a risk to your health if you aren't careful.
Fox News and The Onion each offer solar stories. One's so inaccurate it could only have been satire. And the other was by The Onion.
A new initiative would replace SCE, PG&E, and SDG&E with the publicly owned "California Electrical Utility District."
Boxer has charged that SCE was aware of serious problems with a critical part being installed at San Onofre.
The Hidden Hills Solar Electric Generating System would destroy half the known California occurrences of the plant.
An unprecedented coalition of Native people and other environmental activists fought the State of California to a standstill 15 years ago on a proposal to dump low-level nuclear waste in Ward Valley.
It looks as though California has broken another solar power record, in one of the least-sunny times of year possible.
Unless the California desert gets a bit more rains in March, 2013's spring desert bloom may be a disappointing one.
Sally Jewell is a bit of a dark horse, with far more of a track record in managing businesses than in setting policy.