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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 nation's foremost biodiversity protection law has lost a great deal of its power.
Seven HC-130H planes like this one will be transferred from the Coast Guard to the Forest Service to use in fighting wildfires.
New airplanes and more money will bolster the Forest Service's wildland firefighting operations
Toyon, also known as California Holly or Christmas Berry, as seen at Ernest E. Debs Regional Park in Northeast L.A. Its red 'berries' are characteristic for this time of the year.
The natural world in our own urban backyard is ready for the holiday season.
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SDG&E says it's backing out of a $285 million deal because the operator of the 189-megawatt Rim Rock wind facility near Cut Bank, Montana failed to live up to a number of terms in the companies' agreement, mainly having to do with wildlife protection. ...
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In an about-face, the proponents of a large solar project in the desert portions of Riverside County have asked for a delay in a state agency's final decision on the project. In a filing with the California Energy Commission (CEC) on Monday, Palen Sola...
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They haven't been seen in the Santa Monica Mountains in four decades, but a population of California red-legged frogs in the Simi Hills is raising biologists' hopes that the threatened species might be able to be replanted in the rugged Southern Califo...
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San Francisco residents have worried that a formal designation of Critical Habitat for a manzanita once thought extinct could restrict what they can do with their land or bar visitors from public parks. Those fears have been more or less groundless.
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The company that admitted its lax record keeping and faulty gas pipelines caused a deadly explosion in 2010 in San Bruno just got hit with a big fine for failing to keep state regulators informed about a similar pipeline a few miles south. The Californ...
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Here are what are, in our view, the five most important stories ReWire worked on in 2013. Each of them will likely continue to be important through 2014 and beyond.
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ReWire takes a look at the stories you thought were the most important, at least in terms of how many of you stopped by to read them. Here are the top ten most-visited stories for 2013, in ascending order of eyeballs.
The 2009 Station Fire burns behind a home in La Crescenta, CA.
Those living in wildland fire zones must build defensible space around their homes.
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A new amendment to Los Angeles' building codes now requires all new residential roofs to reflect more sunlight, a move that should help the city reduce the effects of global warming.
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