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.
If you wanted to give some kind of award to the company that just became the largest participant in the L.A. Department of Water and Power's CLEAN LA Solar program, we know where you could get a pretty good deal.
The National Park Service has made its opinion known on a proposed solar power tower project just outside the boundaries of Joshua Tree National Park. That opinion: scrap the project.
BrightSource Energy makes it official: its acting CEO David Ramm gets to take that "acting" off his job description.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service won't be listing two rare California native plants as Endangered.
Here are nine High Desert places for watching those heavenly bodies, including one site that's the darkest we've ever mentioned.
California wind turbines kill more wildlife per megawatt than identical turbines in other parts of the country, according to a new study by two Smithsonian Institution researchers and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist.
Solar power facilities in the California desert may hurt wildlife populations from the Arctic to Panama.
California's Central Valley is a bad place to be a frog, according to a study published Monday.
A document that took unusually long to be posted to the state's website seems to reveal something disquieting about the California Energy Commission.
A proponent of and user of BrightSource's technology readily admitted on the public record that birds flying through the solar flux from a relatively small power tower project would burst into flame.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has responded to our story on its comments about a "funnel effect" at an unnamed solar facility.
We're guessing that USFWS knows something we don't about wildlife mortalities at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System.