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.
It's been a good week for elephants in the California Legislature.
A film on recreational gold prospecting in the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument neglects to mention that mining is illegal there.
As the accident at Colorado's Gold King Mine fades from the news, it's time to provide a little context.
California has its first documented wolf family in almost a century.
U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service staff said the agency's eagle "take permit" policy was unsound. Now a federal judge has backed them up.
For World Elephant Day, here are two troubling facts about elephants, a cool piece of science, and one fact that's truly inspiring.
A beleaguered Spanish solar firm just asked for a year-long extension on a deadline for breaking ground on a controversial solar project in Riverside County
The gray wolf is coming back to California. It's time we took a hard look at our predator management practices.
A San Bernardino County resident who found a trap on his land says he never expected his find to result in bobcats being protected statewide.
Here's where you can see how all of the Ventura County coast used to look -- and a project to bring a huge stretch of it back to life.
Environmental groups say the government isn't discussing alternatives to large tunnels to shunt water around the Delta.
Retiring contaminated farmland in the Central Valley would keep selenium out of the Delta and save water.