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 Colorado River will outlive us all. What's endangered are the communities, human and non-human, who depend on it.
"With this work, we are blurring the lines between what is a battery and what is a supercapacitor."
More than half of the desert biodiversity "hotspots" identified in a study are under threat from renewable energy development.
A reminder of how fragile our current power distribution system is, vulnerable to acts of both Nature and bored vandals with guns.
The proposed Palen solar project could be visible from as far away as the Mojave National Preserve, Mount San Jacinto and the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona.
Senator Barbara Boxer slams a ruling by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on a proposal to restart the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
The concerns expressed in the letter may have serious ramifications for other BrightSource projects.
If a Korean team's work holds up in the real world, we can look forward to even cheaper photovoltaic cells.
Heading downhill yesterday toward "downtown" Joshua Tree I saw it. It was the developing stalk of a flower, growing out of one of my neighbors' Agaves.
A leading energy analyst says that grid parity will be a fact of life around the world by 2018.
Another reason for California to kickstart its non-carbon energy industry a little bit more forcefully: otherwise, we may be reduced to shipping our Zinfandel in from Spokane.
Jewell will inherit an Interior Department with a much sharper focus on aggressive energy development than the one her predecessor took on.