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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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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to open two Southern California condor refuges to the public.
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An epochal study paints a truly frightening picture of a world without large carnivores.
Gizmodo's original headline (left) and the new one (right).
Gizmodo may have backed off on seeming to find merit in a cartop perpetual motion machine, but there are still some problems with the claims that remain in the piece. Attaching a wind turbine to your vehicle and expecting to gain any energy at all, oth...
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San Diego County is working on approval of 1,490 acres of solar projects near the town of Boulevard based in part on wildlife studies performed illegally by a biologist later convicted in Federal court for related offenses.
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2013 was a really bad year for a number of important fish species in the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary, continuing a decade-long collapse of fish. And increased water diversion is to blame.
Lower Yosemite Fall in Yosemite National Park.
Botanizing with John Muir could lead us to rip up our lawns.
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An apparently orphaned mountain lion cub is the beneficiary of a new law requiring that that law enforcement use non-lethal puma control methods.
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A show that started out by setting the standard for broadcast investigative journalism has now apparently decided that its journalism needs no investigation at all.
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A recent study fills in a scientific blank about the western pond turtle.
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"Salvage" logging poses a risk to a rare bird that relies on habitat created by forest fires.
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The river has so much water diverted from its bed that it often runs dry for 60 miles northwest of Fresno.
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Happy New Year: it looks as though California may have set a new solar record Thursday, with more than 3,000 megawatts of solar electricity flowing into the grid at noon.
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