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 plan to build two tunnels that would divert water from Sacramento to San Joaquin Valley farms poses a dire threat to salmon, according to a Bay Area salmon protection group.
Obama administration policy on development of renewable energy for the last six years has often been marked by intransigence against siting big solar and wind facilities on disturbed land rather than intact wildlife habitat. But a relatively obscure cl...
A few years back the Lagunitas Creek watershed's coho numbers cratered. The fish have been steadily regaining ground since, but sprawling residential development may undo the rebound. Two environmental groups have filed suit against Marin County to blo...
After the news broke Friday morning that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to extend the reach of wind industry permits to kill bald and golden eagles, a national wind industry trade group is lauding the move, but saying the industry needs more ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to protect a vanishing California songbird by listing it under the Endangered Species Act, but a national bird protection group says that doesn't go far enough.
In a long-anticipated move that has prompted howls of outrage from conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced it will be extending the maximum length of the permits it's granting wind facility operators to injure or kill bald...
The federal agency that regulates water releases from a Northern California dam drastically cut those releases last month, and one fisheries group is afraid that the move could have killed millions of eggs laid by fall-run chinook salmon.
ReWire looked into the state grid's renewable energy numbers for the last 13 months, and what we found surprised us. It might surprise you, too.
In a glance through a solar power tower developer's latest missive to the state agency considering it application for a Riverside County Project, ReWire spotted something interesting. The company seems to be throwing its solar industry colleagues under...
A tiny Mojave desert fish that was once thought extinct is getting a bit more habitat near Death Valley National Park.
The Santa Monica Mountains are now home to three brand new bouncing baby mountain lions.
Hey, remember back in August when we last noted California having set a record for the amount of utility-scale solar feeding into the state's power grid? Well, the dark and shortening days of the coming winter haven't slowed the state's momentum, becau...