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 BLM's scoping period runs for 30 days. This isn't enough time for most people to become familiar enough with thousands of pages of documents on complex issues to make sensible, substantive comments.
2012 has been a lousy bloom year through most of the California Desert. But if you get out to the Desert Lily Sanctuary in the next week or two, you'll find a little patch of color to match some of the best bloom years ever.
The California desert is a botanical frontier, and there are discoveries to be made around every bend of the wash.
A team of engineers developed a process in which the manure and other organic waste is heated in the absence of oxygen, creating a gas that can be burned as fuel. An engine burns that fuel and charges a set of batteries, which then provide power throug...
White pelicans are common this time of year along the California coast and in the estuary of the Colorado River, but in a few weeks, they will pick up and head for other parts of the country.
Is pumping water from the Mojave Desert a sustainable idea? A new scientific report says "no."
If you see a bunny in the Southern California desert, ask yourself if you'd call it "lanky." If so, that's a jackrabbit. If not, it's a cottontail. Cottontails are compact and pudgy looking. Jackrabbits are neither of those things.
Want to get people in the Coachella Valley stirred up in true "baseball bat to the hornets' nest" style? It's easy. Threaten our hiking trails.
We know so little about the Black Hills in Imperial County. This piece may well be the only published description of the range's flora and fauna, sketchy as it is.
In 1996 Rep. Jerry Lewis made a budget move that prevented the National Park Service from acquiring Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, a State Parks unit now closed due to budget cuts.
This lizard isn't just a pleasant companion on walks; it's one of the niftiest evolutionary curiosities the desert has to offer.
The popular assumption is that deserts are hot places, but they are defined by dryness, not temperature. For example, Antarctica is a desert.