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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 proposed Palen Solar Electric Generating System will cause damage to wild bird populations that cannot be mitigated, and poses significant risk to fringe-toed lizards and desert kit foxes as well according to testimony offered at a state agency hea...
The Los Angeles Aqueduct cascades in Sylmar.
Most of the recipients of the Aqueduct's water still have no idea where the water conveyance system is.
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Endangered species news hardly ever comes with happy endings. Here's one.
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We don't cheerlead much here at ReWire, but we're just really not seeing a downside to this: a Bay Area firm is leasing power storage capacity to businesses at no money down.
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Exposure to rat poison may be the reason California's bobcats are dropping dead from a disease that once didn't slow them down at all.
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Bighorn in the Mojave National Preserve suffer an outbreak of pneumonia that has killed more than a hundred animals.
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An innovative California dairy is getting a bit of press for tapping one of its most abundant products -- cow waste -- to make electricity.
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A new study suggests that pairing carbon with the second most common element in the Earth's crust, silicon, may offer a way to produce efficient, durable "batteries" that could remake the way we think about small-scale power storage.
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Death Valley's protected wilderness is spectacular but its protection has cost its original inhabitants.
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A showy yellow wildflower found in the Lompoc area may be getting Federal protection as a result of a legal settlement.
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The Feds are determining whether to take the gray wolf off the Endangered Species list. What would delisting mean for wolves who move to California?
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Two oarfish that washed up on SoCal beaches this month offer a chance to learn things many Californians would probably rather not think about.
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