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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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View of the North Array site's currently undisturbed desert tortoise habitat from the Soda Mountains.
If discussion at a recent gathering of desert activists is any indication, a nearly 4,200-acre solar project proposed by Bechtel for a valley adjoining the Mojave National Preserve will encounter near-unanimous opposition from green groups.
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In what wildlife agency staff are calling a "worst case scenario," two different killer strains of a pathogen that causes infectious pneumonia have been found in Southern Nevada's desert bighorn sheep, and one of those strains is the same one that's be...
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A network of wildlife crossings along the Trans-Canada Highway is showing promising results, which could have influence with California policy.
The Old Fire burning above the city of Highland in October 2003.
Collaboration in the San Bernardino National Forest may help restore burned-over lands.
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California can do a lot to keep its native salmon and other fish species going through this record drought, and through the inevitable worse ones to come, according to a leading fisheries biologist. But it's going to take hard work and hard choices, an...
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Federally subsidized wind turbine and solar facility owners may be double-dipping federal subsidies, according to a report by a division of the Internal Revenue Service.
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The U.S. Interior Department announced Wednesday it was approving two large solar projects in the Mojave Desert that may displace or harm more than 2,000 desert tortoises
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Three southern sea otters were shot to death at Asilomar State Beach in the Monterey County community of Pacific Grove in September, and a federal agency announced Friday that a $21,000 reward has been posted for information leading to the capture of t...
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Regardless of how individual press outlets reached their decisions on whether to include mention of solar flux wildlife injuries, it's strange and more than a little gratifying to see a story we broke here at ReWire grow wings and go worldwide.
A great blue heron with a captured vole at Malibu Lagoon in 2012, before restoration work began.
California State Parks has dramatically cutback on watering tens of thousands of native plants at the newly restored Malibu Lagoon in the face of a statewide drought.
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Bad news for a Northern California toxicologist studying the effects of rat poison on the state's wildlife: his dog was apparently killed in an act of retaliation for his work, poisoned by the same highly toxic chemical whose effects the man had been s...
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reopened public comment on the amount of habitat to protect for a small yellow flower that grows in just a few places in the eastern Sierra Nevada northwest of Reno.
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