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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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More than 250 native tule elk have died at Point Reyes since 2012, and a wildlife protection group says fences are to blame.
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Few significant water uses are so ostentatious and arguably unnecessary as golf.
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The largest entirely free-flowing river in California is among the most-threatened rivers in the United States, according to American Rivers.
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California might have broken another solar record, with 6,000 megawatts of solar flowing into the grid.
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Mendocino County has decided to hold off on renewing its contract with the predator-killing agency Wildlife Services.
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California water use numbers are just really, really big, so minor uses can sound deceptively large.
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An endangered vole that scientists once thought was extinct will be going through a rite of passage next week.
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A whole lot of California species are being considered for protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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Putting money into free solar for the state's poorest residents could give the state more solar for its buck.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is announcing that it won't add the Humboldt marten to the Endangered Species list.
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For Californians, who has the right to water -- in what order, for what, in what quantity, and under what terms -- is not an easy answer.
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The drought is hurting Mono Lake, but if not for the decades-long campaign to save it, it'd be dead now. So there's that.
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