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 have walked the desert with other people and without other people, but I have never walked the desert by myself.
The Public Utilities Commission will use proceeds from closing a coal power plant to renewable projects for the Hopi and Navajo.
Though the incentive program has taken heat, it already has more applicants for its first round than were planned for in the whole program.
Plastic bag bans have spurred a spike in deaths from E. coli poisoning.
In his 2013 State Of The Union, President Obama covered new ground on one of the least-sexy facets of the overall issue: energy conservation.
Fast-charging, high-capacity lithium ion batteries could be available in two or three years.
The groups charge that the BLM should have examined alternatives that concentrate development on disturbed lands and cities.
The last time you took a long road trip, did you assume you had enough gas because you checked the gas gauge a couple days ago? That's how California manages its bobcat population: letting the "supply" go uncounted for more than three decades as we bur...
A new smartphone app allows you to track California's power grid and renewables in real time.
It was once lauded as the "nation's largest solar project." Now it's blowing dust and invasive grass where once there was thriving desert.
An initiative would shutter California's two nuclear power plants until the federal government has figured out where to put high-level nuclear waste.
Proposed wind installation in North Dakota threatens the critically endangered whooping crane, of which fewer than 400 remain in the wild.