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.
Big Sur residents say condor-safe power lines will hurt their views.
A study of 50 solar homes in Austin, Texas hints that simply facing rooftop solar panels west instead of south can make those panels supply a bigger chunk of their owners' energy consumption.
The environmental group Defenders of Wildlife is getting ready to sue BLM and USFWS over threats to the tortoise in the Ivanpah Valley.
Putting solar panels on suitable undeveloped rooftop space in L.A. County could create about half of the electrical power California needs on a typical summer day, and developing just five percent of that rooftop capacity would generate almost 30,000 j...
Considering a non-gasoline ride but nervous about finding places to top off your chosen "fuel"? We realize this is a dated catchphrase, but there's an app for that.
A bill would exempt the Navy from environmental laws protecting California's sea otters.
BrightSource has long said it needs to get a couple of its power tower solar energy projects under its belt before it can implement thermal storage capacity at later projects. But a recent profile of the Ivanpah plant says just the opposite.
Why has this ad gotten to us? Its creators have hit us in a sore spot.
Ever wonder whether biologists' constant renaming of organisms has any actual importance in the real world? Ask the wrentit.
The White House has announced its choice for the new head of the Bureau of Land Management, and the nomination may well signal an intent to continue the aggressive development of renewable energy facilities on public lands that has characterized the Ob...
An threatened bird found only at a few springs in the Mojave Desert may be removed from protection under the federal Endangered Species Act.
The people who want to build the 500-megawatt Palen Solar Electric Generating System in Riverside County have made no secret of the fact that delays in approval could doom the project. And now an odd bit of procedural wonkery threatens to add to that d...