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KCET's award-winning environment news project Redefine ran from July 2012 through February 2017. For ongoing environmental coverage please visit our show Earth Focus, or browse Redefine's archives below for historical material.

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A film on recreational gold prospecting in the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument neglects to mention that mining is illegal there.
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As the accident at Colorado's Gold King Mine fades from the news, it's time to provide a little context.
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California has its first documented wolf family in almost a century.
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U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service staff said the agency's eagle "take permit" policy was unsound. Now a federal judge has backed them up.
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For World Elephant Day, here are two troubling facts about elephants, a cool piece of science, and one fact that's truly inspiring.
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A beleaguered Spanish solar firm just asked for a year-long extension on a deadline for breaking ground on a controversial solar project in Riverside County
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The gray wolf is coming back to California. It's time we took a hard look at our predator management practices.
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A San Bernardino County resident who found a trap on his land says he never expected his find to result in bobcats being protected statewide.
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Here's where you can see how all of the Ventura County coast used to look -- and a project to bring a huge stretch of it back to life.
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Environmental groups say the government isn't discussing alternatives to large tunnels to shunt water around the Delta.
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The U.S. Geological Survey has called the impact of Central Valley groundwater pumping "the largest human alteration of the Earth's surface."
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Retiring contaminated farmland in the Central Valley would keep selenium out of the Delta and save water.
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