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.
SDG&E says it's backing out of a $285 million deal because the operator of the 189-megawatt Rim Rock wind facility near Cut Bank, Montana failed to live up to a number of terms in the companies' agreement, mainly having to do with wildlife protection. ...
In an about-face, the proponents of a large solar project in the desert portions of Riverside County have asked for a delay in a state agency's final decision on the project. In a filing with the California Energy Commission (CEC) on Monday, Palen Sola...
They haven't been seen in the Santa Monica Mountains in four decades, but a population of California red-legged frogs in the Simi Hills is raising biologists' hopes that the threatened species might be able to be replanted in the rugged Southern Califo...
San Francisco residents have worried that a formal designation of Critical Habitat for a manzanita once thought extinct could restrict what they can do with their land or bar visitors from public parks. Those fears have been more or less groundless.
The company that admitted its lax record keeping and faulty gas pipelines caused a deadly explosion in 2010 in San Bruno just got hit with a big fine for failing to keep state regulators informed about a similar pipeline a few miles south. The Californ...
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A new amendment to Los Angeles' building codes now requires all new residential roofs to reflect more sunlight, a move that should help the city reduce the effects of global warming.
It may seem an unusual question for dwindling wildlife species, whose numbers we usually want to increase. But a study just published in the Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine reveals that artificial contraception can work to keep American bison from...
The dirt road ended five miles off the pavement, in a valley ringed by crumbling granite peaks.
While a drop in overall numbers of injured birds is certainly welcome news on the face of it, if the project poses a special risk to migrating birds its environmental impact could well extend across a startlingly wide swath of North America.
This gizmo could shrink our climate footprint without endangering wildlife, penalizing struggling ratepayers or requiring new, massive, and expensive infrastructure. In fact, widespread use of this technology could actually save the typical Californian...