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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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Let your lawn die. That's right, cut it off. No more water.
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Four coastal wetlands in California will benefit from $3 million in grants.
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California's drought may spell the end of a plant species that's been in trouble for a long time.
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A new study published this week suggests that a bit of genetic tinkering can help a microorganism boost its ability to turn organic matter into usable fuel, which might make it a bit easier to run our vehicles on fuel that doesn't spend down our fossil...
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Transportation accounted for 37.6 percent of the state's greenhouse gas emissions in 2011, making our cars, trucks, SUVs, and semis the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the state
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Organizers of an annual coyote-killing contest are trying to keep opponents from finding out about it.
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Bird deaths continue at a slower pace at the Ivanpah solar project, and tortoises continue to turn up missing.
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You may be able before long to charge your cell phone by carbo-loading it, if a Virginia Tech team's research pans out.
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New data is prompting a wildlife protection group to ask for better protection of orca habitat along more than half the U.S. Pacific coast.
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Revealing that his fight against prostate cancer has taken a turn for the worse, California Public Utilities Commissioner Mark J. Ferron resigned Thursday from his seat on the CPUC. In the process, he made a remarkable statement about the future of ene...
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Two bird-protection groups reaffirm their stand on one of the most polarizing contemporary wildlife issues.
A family of black bears in the Lake Tahoe area. | Photo courtesy NV Dept. of Wildlife.
Black bears eating garbage near Lake Tahoe when they should be hibernating is a result of the severe drought in California and Nevada.
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