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.
Here's why venture capitalist Tim Draper's campaign to make a half-dozen Californias is best regarded as a PR stunt.
According to reports provided by California's electrical power grid operator, the world's largest concentrating solar power plant spent a lot of its first month online being, well, not online.
A tiny Mojave Desert snail that lives under rocks on mountain slopes is threatened by a new Kern County gold mine, according to a group urging emergency protection for the snail under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Who could think there was beauty in taking a living stretch of wild earth and subjugating it?
Monarch butterflies are in trouble, a sad fact that's putting midwestern butterflies in the news this week. And according to a fifteen-year study, the monarch's numbers are crashing in California as well.
News reports are saying that the world's largest concentrating solar facility went online in California's desert at the beginning of the month. But figures from the state's grid operator suggest that solar thermal power production in California actuall...
CDFW closes many rivers and creeks to fishing to protect salmon and steelhead struggling to survive during the drought.
This is well outside California, but it may well have ramifications in the Golden State: A lawsuit threatened by a pair of bird conservation groups has halted a wind power development the federal government had planned along the Lake Erie shore in Ohio.
With the drought declaration driving attention to California's water woes, people are asking whether we can use renewable energy to de-salt seawater on purpose. And we probably can, but there's an elephant in the room that few seem to be discussing.
A couple of notable mentions of energy policy in the the President's State of the Union actually represent a departure of sorts from past policies, at least if you read between the lines. And just as notable, in the energy realm, were the things that w...
In another blow to so-called "range anxiety" keeping electric cars from entering the mainstream, a pair of Tesla drivers have made the first-ever cross-country drive using only the luxury electric car's supercharger stations to "refuel."
Researchers studying distemper in desert kit foxes report that they couldn't find any sick foxes in their most recent survey.