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.
An update about KCET's crowdfunding campaign for wildlife reporting.
Last month, Arizona's largest power company admitted it had been bankrolling ultraconservative groups opposed to rooftop solar. Is the same happening at the national level?
A mountain lion that was struck and killed near Agoura Hills underscores the threats to the survival of Santa Monica Mountains pumas.
Sea stars are dying horribly along the Pacific Coast, and scientists aren't sure why.
The proposed Palen Solar Electric Generating System will cause damage to wild bird populations that cannot be mitigated, and poses significant risk to fringe-toed lizards and desert kit foxes as well according to testimony offered at a state agency hea...
Endangered species news hardly ever comes with happy endings. Here's one.
Here are seven of our favorite Low Desert spots to contemplate your local portion of the universe.
We don't cheerlead much here at ReWire, but we're just really not seeing a downside to this: a Bay Area firm is leasing power storage capacity to businesses at no money down.
Exposure to rat poison may be the reason California's bobcats are dropping dead from a disease that once didn't slow them down at all.
Bighorn in the Mojave National Preserve suffer an outbreak of pneumonia that has killed more than a hundred animals.
An innovative California dairy is getting a bit of press for tapping one of its most abundant products -- cow waste -- to make electricity.
A new study suggests that pairing carbon with the second most common element in the Earth's crust, silicon, may offer a way to produce efficient, durable "batteries" that could remake the way we think about small-scale power storage.