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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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Two plants found only in Death Valley National Park that have been on the Endangered list since 1978 have since recovered, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is proposing to remove them from the list.
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If you have an uneasy feeling about where California's offshore rigs dispose of their fracking wastewater, you may well be correct. About half of the state's offshore rigs pump at least some of their wastewater right into the Santa Barbara Channel.
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When Bill Nye appeared on Bill Maher's show this month he ventured into my usual turf: the deserts of California.
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In wetter years, there's so much wildlife on the Carrizo Plain in San Luis Obispo County that observers sometimes call it "California's Serengeti." But a wildlife species that helps hold the whole ecosystem together is on the verge of blinking out of e...
Musician Timothy Sellers' rainwater collection containers in his Highland Park home, made from 50-gallon Albanian pickle barrels.
With 44 percent of total household water usage in Los Angeles going towards landscaping use, rainwater collection is important.
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A large environmental group is charging that a dramatic increase in the use of a popular weed-killer is the culprit in the last decade's plunge in monarch butterfly numbers. But are they blaming a symptom rather than the real cause?
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The "Charge Ahead California" bill is geared toward improving air quality, especially in low-income communities.
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A controversial wind project voted down in June by the Campo Indian Reservation's General Council just got axed by the feds late last week.
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California set yet another solar power output record on Friday, and may have beaten that record just three days later.
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Our attempts to cool the planet may make the desert too hot for tortoises, according to a leading biologist.
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The Federal agency that operates one of the largest waterworks in California announced Friday how it plans to parcel out the meager supplies of water it controls in drought-stricken California -- and the Central Valley's wildlife refuges are going to t...
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California's second-largest county wants to designate almost ten percent of its land for renewable energy development, and a cultural protection group is taking up metaphorical arms against the core of the proposed policy. In doing so, it's turning NIM...
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