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.
The Feds have proposed granting the Mono Basin sage grouse protection as a Threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Living in isolation from their cousins, the eastern and western groups of Joshua trees have evolved different growth habits.
The San Luis Valley in Colorado has been incredibly attractive to solar developers in the past, with at least three solar facilities already producing power and more on the drawing board. Why were there no takers?
NOAA Fisheries has decided to remove the eastern population of the Steller sea lion from protection as a Threatened species.
The reports are predictable in a year in which a very large number of California sea lions have been reported as starving.
The Bureau of Land Management announced Wednesday that it's extending the public comment period on a proposed desert solar project in Riverside County until November 14 to make up for October's shutdown of the federal government.
Seventeen American startups working on innovation in the solar sector have been awarded grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to further their research -- and eight of those companies are based in California.
Two California condors found dead in firefighters' "dip tanks" west of Tehachapi in the past month.
A small seabird whose population has been declining for several years has been denied protection under federal law.
A ruling by a state commission requires the state's largest utilities to develop more than 1,300 megawatts of electrical power storage by 2020 but doesn't specify an actual capacity for that storage. That's led some tech-savvy members of the public to ...
The fact that California holds undiscovered populations of wildlife is no surprise.
If you think the conflict between rooftop solar advocates and big utilities seems heated here in California, you ought to cast a glimpse at our exotic neighbor to the east, Arizona. This week, the story took an interesting turn, as Arizona's largest ut...