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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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Worried about that giant plastic patch the size of Alaska that's floating in the Pacific Ocean? Your beverage habits might well be part of the problem.
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California's cities could generate enough solar energy to power the state several times over without building on intact wildlife habitat.
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The state of California is considering a complete ban on bobcat trapping in the state, but two NorCal counties have a problem with that.
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The drought has cut California's hydropower output. We've been making up the difference by burning natural gas.
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The Delta, it turns out, isn't actually a delta, with islands that aren't strictly islands.
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The CPUC just approved a large proposed solar facility on habitat for several endangered species. Wildlife activists are fuming.
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Work has halted on an Imperial County solar plant; a lizard on site may be listed as endangered.
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It's a very good day when NOAA can expand protections to Pacific marine life.Today is one such day.
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A bill that would ban sale most products containing ivory and rhino horn in California passed a major hurdle today in the Assembly.
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A bird protection group is asking for independent monitoring of bird and bat deaths at wind power facilities.
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A plan that would manage renewable energy development on 22 million acres of the California desert will be done a piece at a time.
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Some opponents are calling it "the worst renewable energy project currently under consideration."
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