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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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OR-7, the gray wolf that wandered through California for 15 months starting in 2011, stopped by for a quick visit over the weekend, then headed back into Oregon. The weekend visit adds to pressure on CDFW to make sure that wolves that wander into Cali...
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I'll never again underestimate the power of a Texas-sized ice storm.
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The Federal wind Production Tax Credit is set to expire again. The voices that clamored for its extension the last time it was expiring, a year ago, are largely silent this time around. Why the lack of fervor?
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The state broke another record on Tuesday for the amount of solar energy flowing into the state's power grid from large solar installations, with more than 2,800 megawatts of solar electricity recorded by the state's grid operator at just before noon.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rebuffed an attempt by a conservative organization to reduce protection of an Endangered shrub that survives in only five small populations near Los Osos in San Luis Obispo County.
A crane on the Sacramento Delta.
A plan to build two tunnels that would divert water from Sacramento to San Joaquin Valley farms poses a dire threat to salmon, according to a Bay Area salmon protection group.
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Obama administration policy on development of renewable energy for the last six years has often been marked by intransigence against siting big solar and wind facilities on disturbed land rather than intact wildlife habitat. But a relatively obscure cl...
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A few years back the Lagunitas Creek watershed's coho numbers cratered. The fish have been steadily regaining ground since, but sprawling residential development may undo the rebound. Two environmental groups have filed suit against Marin County to blo...
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After the news broke Friday morning that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to extend the reach of wind industry permits to kill bald and golden eagles, a national wind industry trade group is lauding the move, but saying the industry needs more ...
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to protect a vanishing California songbird by listing it under the Endangered Species Act, but a national bird protection group says that doesn't go far enough.
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In a long-anticipated move that has prompted howls of outrage from conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced it will be extending the maximum length of the permits it's granting wind facility operators to injure or kill bald...
A view of downtown Los Angeles from Ernest E. Debs Regional Park.
Walking through Los Angeles on 18 miles on pavement got me thinking about how the paved layer we live on can place a toll on us.
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