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.
A new paper suggests that a proposed solar power tower project in northeastern Riverside County may harm California's largest population of a rare desert shrub.
The California Energy Commission on Friday gave a "thumbs down" to a controversial solar tower project in Riverside County. But at the same time, it sent out a tentative "thumbs up" on a solar panel project 40 miles west that has been every bit as cont...
The California Energy Commission is likely to deny approval to the Palen Solar Electric Generating System in Riverside County on the grounds that it may pose an unacceptable risk to birds and other wildlife.
An interesting development in the "green on green" division that's characterized renewable energy and wildlife issues: The Maine chapter of the National Audubon Society is being accused of softening a report on wind energy after taking donations from e...
A 35-year study of desert tortoises in Joshua Tree National Park underscores something that most desert biologists already strongly suspected: climate change will likely be a big problem for the southernmost populations of the desert tortoise.
File this one under "what are they thinking?" An invasive cockroach species first noted in California in 1978 is now well established throughout the cities and towns of the southwestern U.S., and though little is known about its biology or its effect o...
Citing damage to the environment and higher food prices, U.S Senator Dianne Feinstein is lending her support to a bill that would end a federal mandate to increase the amount of corn ethanol in auto fuel. "A corn ethanol mandate is simply bad policy," ...
There's a video making the rounds this week showing a new wind turbine design that its developers claim will be more efficient, less resource-intensive, and safer for wildlife than conventional turbines. But do the claims stand up?
OR-7, the gray wolf that wandered through California for 15 months starting in 2011, stopped by for a quick visit over the weekend, then headed back into Oregon. The weekend visit adds to pressure on CDFW to make sure that wolves that wander into Cali...
The Federal wind Production Tax Credit is set to expire again. The voices that clamored for its extension the last time it was expiring, a year ago, are largely silent this time around. Why the lack of fervor?
The state broke another record on Tuesday for the amount of solar energy flowing into the state's power grid from large solar installations, with more than 2,800 megawatts of solar electricity recorded by the state's grid operator at just before noon.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rebuffed an attempt by a conservative organization to reduce protection of an Endangered shrub that survives in only five small populations near Los Osos in San Luis Obispo County.