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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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Monarch butterflies are in trouble, a sad fact that's putting midwestern butterflies in the news this week. And according to a fifteen-year study, the monarch's numbers are crashing in California as well.
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News reports are saying that the world's largest concentrating solar facility went online in California's desert at the beginning of the month. But figures from the state's grid operator suggest that solar thermal power production in California actuall...
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CDFW closes many rivers and creeks to fishing to protect salmon and steelhead struggling to survive during the drought.
Coastal sage scrub plants cover the hillside at White Point Nature Preserve in San Pedro.
At the extreme southwesternmost point of the city of Los Angeles lies a 102-acre plot of land that appears as an empty, vacant parcel to the uninitiated.
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This is well outside California, but it may well have ramifications in the Golden State: A lawsuit threatened by a pair of bird conservation groups has halted a wind power development the federal government had planned along the Lake Erie shore in Ohio.
A helicopter drops water on the Waldo Fire in Colorado on June 27, 2012.
Let's hope Colorado's inaction on fire-prevention legislation doesn't turn the Centennial State into a funeral pyre.
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With the drought declaration driving attention to California's water woes, people are asking whether we can use renewable energy to de-salt seawater on purpose. And we probably can, but there's an elephant in the room that few seem to be discussing.
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A couple of notable mentions of energy policy in the the President's State of the Union actually represent a departure of sorts from past policies, at least if you read between the lines. And just as notable, in the energy realm, were the things that w...
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In another blow to so-called "range anxiety" keeping electric cars from entering the mainstream, a pair of Tesla drivers have made the first-ever cross-country drive using only the luxury electric car's supercharger stations to "refuel."
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Researchers studying distemper in desert kit foxes report that they couldn't find any sick foxes in their most recent survey.
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The Central Coast coho could be gone south of the Golden Gate.
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Are you a Californian with something to say about the possibility of adding the Northern spotted owl to the state's Endangered Species list?
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