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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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An Inland Empire retail plaza developer may receive permission from the federal government to kill an endangered fly in exchange for preserving some of the insect's remaining habitat.
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The 250-megawatt project will be built on land adjacent to State Route 14 four miles south of Red Rock Canyon State Park.
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Are you a diver who explores the depths off the California coast? A team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara need your help to gauge the health of one of the state's most dramatic wildlife species.
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A desert protection group said in a formal legal request filed Monday that the project violates several federal laws and should be reconsidered.
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A creek containing the state's southernmost run of the federally endangered coho salmon has been diverted for an illegal pot grow, with as much as 1,400 gallons a day taken away from the fish.
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According to a document published by the California Energy Commission on Friday, a solar power tower facility proposed for Riverside County would kill or injure many more birds.
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The federal government's management plans to protect the greater sage grouse don't go nearly far enough to regulate the single greatest threat to the increasingly rare bird, according to a report released this week by the Western Watersheds Project.
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A federal laboratory has released a report on hazards from glare at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in San Bernardino County.
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A virus related to the ones that cause smallpox and chickenpox has been found in sea otters from California and Alaska, and scientists are concerned it could interfere with infected otters' ability to stay warm in the frigid waters of the Pacific Ocean.
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A Native tribe based in the Owens Valley is applying for a permit to move an endangered desert fish to a specially prepared refuge on the tribe's land, in an effort to restore a species that was once vital to the tribe's survival.
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Plans to log over 5,000 acres of burned trees in the Tahoe and Sierra national forests poses a serious threat to wildlife that depends on burned over forests. That's according to two environmental groups that sued the U.S. Forest Service Thursday to st...
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A new study commissioned by the Nevada Public Utilities Commission finds that rooftop solar panel owners taking part in the state's ongoing net metering program won't be raising the electric bills of their non-solar neighbors.
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