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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.

Playa Racetrack, Death Valley
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Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands. | Photo: Courtesy Dept. of the Inteior
President Obama used the Antiquities Act to expand the California Coastal National Monument. May it be the first of many.
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A September, a paper by the world's leading body of scientists studying the effects of human activity on the world's climate suggested there was a slim chance that greenhouse gas emissions would force global warming to a smaller degree than previously ...
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A new gray wolf visiting the Mount Hood area in north-central Oregon in December is providing confirmation that left to their own devices, the charismatic predators may well recolonize California.
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An extremely rare, low-growing beach plant that survives in just a few sites in Oregon and the extreme north of California is being proposed by a number of environmental groups for protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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The California Court of Appeals just handed a big victory to defenders of Marin County's coho salmon.
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The group Defenders of Wildlife filed suit today to overturn the Interior Department's approval of two large solar projects planned for the Ivanpah Valley in the Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas, saying that the projects were approved without enough co...
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The U.S. Forest Service could use your help this weekend at its final bald eagle count of the winter in the San Bernardino and San Jacinto National Forests. And participants might just see some of the south state's breeding population of eagles that h...
Disturbing evidence of an 8x10-foot section of poached burl-wood. | Photo: Courtesy NPS
Here's another story to file under "why we can't have nice things": the California Department of Parks and Recreation has closed night-time access to a popular road through the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park because someone's been mutilating ancient...
A rainy March 1, 2014 at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA.
Will the current drought bring welcome change to Califonia's water policies? Let's hope so.
Red circles denote acidizing locations between June 2, 2013 and January 29, 2014.
Good fences don't always mean good neighbors. The angle from which you look at them is key. Some tree-lined facades might actually be an oil operation.
The large crowd at today's meeting gave a joyous reaction after the L.A. City Council unanimously moved the fracking proposal forward. | Photo: Courtesy Kent Minault
If the moratorium is approved, it would stay in effect until oil companies can assure that the city's water supply is safe, that the practice does not otherwise harm the environment and the companies are fully disclosing the chemicals used.
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Two new videos out this week show how drones can actually help us learn about and appreciate California's wildlife.
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