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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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In January, Caltrans agreed to use safer methods to exclude nesting swallows from a highway construction project in Sonoma County, but the alternative measures used may still be affecting wildlife populations in the long term.
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The agency that operates the electrical power grid for most of California forecasted last week that the state was in good shape for summer.
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The Redwood National and State Parks have announced that their law enforcement staff arrested a local resident on charges of damaging ancient redwood trees in order to steal their valuable burl wood.
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Sadly, now it looks like Southern California has its own infectious live oak disease to worry about.
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OR-7, the first wild wolf in California since 1924, may have started a family north of the state line.
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Glaciers and ice sheets in western Antarctica are melting, there's nothing we can do to stop it, and the result will be a 10-foot rise in sea level within the next century or two. That's according to new reports by NASA scientists scheduled for publica...
Marijuana cultivation in Sequoia National Park in 2009 | Photo: Courtesy National Park Service
This story has been published in tandem with a segment for KCET's award-winning TV show "SoCal Connected." Watch it here now.A few years ago, Sequoia and…
Forever 21's headquarters in L.A.'s Lincoln Heights neighborhood will be covered in solar power panels.
The planned 5.1-megawatt solar power system being installed on the rooftop of fashion retailer Forever 21's headquarters in Lincoln Heights is said to be the largest single-rooftop solar power system in L.A. County
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Since January, nearly 300 sea lions have been admitted to the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro.
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President Obama announced a set of new executive actions the White House will be taking to promote the domestic solar industry.
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A grisly blunder Saturday by a tree-trimming crew in Oakland resulted in the deaths of black-crowned night heron chicks, and though the culprits are saying they didn't mean to cause any harm, I'm not buying it.
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Inyo County's Board of Supervisors has made a whole lot of people who love the Owens Valley very happy.
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