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.
I've often noticed that many environmentally inclined people dislike deserts. Sometimes it's as benign as a matter of personal preference for where to spend outdoor time. Sometimes it's an actual dismissal of the land's value. Allan Savory takes it eve...
California remains the nation's geothermal leader with over 2,700 megawatts of capacity installed.
We've been breaking one California solar record after another, but those numbers don't tell the whole story.
A new report says that far from hindering green development, CEQA may have actually promoted such development.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has asked the public for help in gathering information on eagle mortality at wind turbines.
The Interior Department has approved two solar projects in the California desert and a wind project near the Mojave Preserve.
Desert kit foxes are in trouble, facing threats from industrial development of their habitat to a deadly outbreak of distemper that's killing untold numbers of foxes.
Power from the Wild Rose Geothermal Facility near Gabbs, NV will start flowing toward L.A.'s grid in January 2014.
A San Francisco-based firm says we can store power with technology we've used since the Stone Age: the flywheel.
At 10:00 am Sunday, the state's grid had 1,500 megawatts of solar power entering the grid for the first time ever.
The legislation would loosen protections on eagles and other raptors to make it easier to build new transmission lines for renewable energy.
Forthcoming film "Who Are My People?" is not just a one-hour exploration of conflicts between Native people anxious to defend their culture and the rush to develop the desert for utility-scale solar power, it's also a profoundly personal statement abou...