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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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The leaked document shows that a regional director doubts climate change's affect on the species.
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A report suggests that the nation's largest municipal utility wants to find a way to charge solar customers with net metering contracts for use of the power grid.
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A petition on behalf of two real estate developers' trade groups to remove the coastal California gnatcatcher from protection under the Endangered Species Act is based on questionable science, according to an expert on bird genetics at Occidental College.
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Peter Marler, a UC Davis-based ornithologist who discovered that regional populations of songbirds can sing in distinct dialects, has died at age 86 of pneumonia.
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A campaign to urge California counties not to work with a controversial federal agency accused of massive cruelty to wildlife is gaining traction, as Humboldt County's Board of Supervisors has agreed to discuss whether to renew the county's annual cont...
Pumas and coyotes are two of the main species targeted by Wildlife Services.
A group of environmental organizations is now formally asking Humboldt and Mendocino counties to join Sonoma and Marin counties to their south in cutting off contracts with the federal agency Wildlife Services.
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In a day full of disappointing news coming out of SCOTUS, it's reassuring to know there are one or two things the highest court in the land can still get right.
The L.A. Department of Water and Power is one of many city agencies eyed for reducing carbon emissions.
A Los Angeles city councilman said today he wants to set a goal of dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Los Angeles by 2050.
A seemingly arcane shift in policy on the part of two federal agencies about enforcement of the Endangered Species Act has wildlife advocates ready to head to court, saying that the Obama administration is "eviscerating" protection for endangered and t...
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I never thought about verdins much before this year. I knew they existed, ridiculously tiny songbirds not much more massive than the insects they eat. That was before I had them next to my desk for most of the workday.
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A man who pled guilty to illegally trapping and killing dozens of bobcats and gray foxes in Lassen County was fined $5,000 and sentenced to a year's probation.
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The 100-megawatt facility will be allowed to kill up to five golden eagles over a five-year period.
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