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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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Green sturgeon are highly adapted to conditions in the Bay Delta -- but those conditions are changing too fast for the sturgeon to keep up.
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The splittail was once abundant. Now its numbers are dwindling. But it isn't protected by either the state or feds.
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In 2010, foes of a controversial Delta beetle tried to strip it of its Federal protection. But wildlife advocates argued back -- and the science backed them up.
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The Bay Delta's ecological productivity has dropped catastrophically. And the culprits live in the estuary in unimaginable numbers.
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The more you study the Delta's sleek, silvery steelhead, the less you realize you know.
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A fish, a frog, and a turtle have caused widespread damage to the Delta...and we brought them here on purpose.
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Scientists differ over the degree of harm this fish might causing native wildlife, many Californians are happy to have a chance to see it. Especially steamed with ginger and lemongrass.
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It's a complicated estuary where water from 75,000 square miles of California and sometimes Oregon drains into the Pacific, and it doesn't really have a name.
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California's Delta is a nearly ideal place to grow many plants. Some troublemakers are taking advantage of that opportunity.
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Despite rampant development, we still have a few pieces of the natural Los Angeles coast, because of fierce political battles to preserve it.
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Some endangered species merit legions of squeeing fans on YouTube. One such ekes out a living beside San Francisco Bay.
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It's no surprise that one of California's most endangered animals depends on damaged salt marshes: the California Ridgway's rail.
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