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.
An epochal study paints a truly frightening picture of a world without large carnivores.
Gizmodo may have backed off on seeming to find merit in a cartop perpetual motion machine, but there are still some problems with the claims that remain in the piece. Attaching a wind turbine to your vehicle and expecting to gain any energy at all, oth...
San Diego County is working on approval of 1,490 acres of solar projects near the town of Boulevard based in part on wildlife studies performed illegally by a biologist later convicted in Federal court for related offenses.
2013 was a really bad year for a number of important fish species in the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary, continuing a decade-long collapse of fish. And increased water diversion is to blame.
An apparently orphaned mountain lion cub is the beneficiary of a new law requiring that that law enforcement use non-lethal puma control methods.
A show that started out by setting the standard for broadcast investigative journalism has now apparently decided that its journalism needs no investigation at all.
A recent study fills in a scientific blank about the western pond turtle.
"Salvage" logging poses a risk to a rare bird that relies on habitat created by forest fires.
The river has so much water diverted from its bed that it often runs dry for 60 miles northwest of Fresno.
Happy New Year: it looks as though California may have set a new solar record Thursday, with more than 3,000 megawatts of solar electricity flowing into the grid at noon.
The nation's foremost biodiversity protection law has lost a great deal of its power.
This has been my life in California: retracing old steps with new eyes as the landscape changes underfoot.