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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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Map of electric vehicle charging locations near KCET's headquarters in Burbank, CA. | Screenshot: Courtesy NREL
Considering a non-gasoline ride but nervous about finding places to top off your chosen "fuel"? We realize this is a dated catchphrase, but there's an app for that.
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A bill would exempt the Navy from environmental laws protecting California's sea otters.
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BrightSource has long said it needs to get a couple of its power tower solar energy projects under its belt before it can implement thermal storage capacity at later projects. But a recent profile of the Ivanpah plant says just the opposite.
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Why has this ad gotten to us? Its creators have hit us in a sore spot.
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Ever wonder whether biologists' constant renaming of organisms has any actual importance in the real world? Ask the wrentit.
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The White House has announced its choice for the new head of the Bureau of Land Management, and the nomination may well signal an intent to continue the aggressive development of renewable energy facilities on public lands that has characterized the Ob...
The Inyo California towhee.
An threatened bird found only at a few springs in the Mojave Desert may be removed from protection under the federal Endangered Species Act.
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The people who want to build the 500-megawatt Palen Solar Electric Generating System in Riverside County have made no secret of the fact that delays in approval could doom the project. And now an odd bit of procedural wonkery threatens to add to that d...
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An update about KCET's crowdfunding campaign for wildlife reporting.
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Last month, Arizona's largest power company admitted it had been bankrolling ultraconservative groups opposed to rooftop solar. Is the same happening at the national level?
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A mountain lion that was struck and killed near Agoura Hills underscores the threats to the survival of Santa Monica Mountains pumas.
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Sea stars are dying horribly along the Pacific Coast, and scientists aren't sure why.
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