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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Only one state park did not get a reprieve, and it's been closed for awhile now.
A long-promoted plan to pipe water from one of the driest parts of the Mojave Desert to irrigate Southern California's cities continues to find new critics.
News from the ominous Red List for at-risk and near-extinct animals includes two updates to California animals: the Sonoran mud turtle and Amargosa springsnail.
It may cost more than a billion dollars, one fifth of the county's annual budget, to build enough beds for the prison population.
A pair of court cases came to a close this month that spelled good news for two of California's National Parks.
Anaerobic decomposition in landfills has long been tapped as a source of electrical power, but using the resulting gas to power vehicles hasn't yet been tried.
California reached a renewable energy milestone last week, but here's some important perspective.
One major solar developer is poised to take over a bankrupt project, but will the state allow it?
Brown styles himself as an iconoclast but his attacks on California's landmark environmental law are politics as usual.
The Mojave has long stood in, in the public mind, for barrenness, an impression reinforced by generations of forbidding location shots in westerns and other films, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
Conservatives prevailed in most contests, incumbents had a bit of an advantage, and turnout was spotty.
Despite their reputation, only one or two shark attacks a year are recorded in California, with a death about once a decade.