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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 group of Native tribes is hauling the Interior Department to court over the Blythe Solar Power Project, claiming Interior isn't paying enough attention to the site's cultural significance.
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is recommending that that the flat-tailed horned lizard be listed as Endangered in the state.
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You think California passes some wacky laws? The Michigan Senate is now considering a bill that would classify burning tires to generate power as "renewable energy."
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The Salton Sea, California's largest lake, will die unless the state throws a staggering amount of resources at it.
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The Salton Sea as we know it is doomed unless the State of California takes action, and that's bad news for wildlife. To understand why, we have to talk about the formation of the Grand Canyon.
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A songbird that was once considered the most common bird in California was granted emergency protection Wednesday under the California Endangered Species Act.
Desert tortoise available for adoption. | Photo: Alicia Clark/KCET
Not many people can say they are the proud owner of a Threatened animal species.
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Coyote-killing contests are no longer legal in the state of California.
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A new study suggests that moving desert tortoises into new locations may actually cause outbreaks of disease by changing what we might as well just succumb to the obvious clickbait temptation and call the reptiles' social networking habits.
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Yielding to pressure from conservative interests, the lead federal agency charged with protecting endangered wildlife has reopened public comment on proposed habitat for a western bird recently added to the list of Threatened species.
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One day of heavy rain will not cure the state's three-year drought.
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A recent lawsuit raises a question that's beginning to be asked by any number of people watching the renewable energy industry: Why do we trust renewable energy companies to report on their own wildlife kills?
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