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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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Reaction to the pact is mixed, with the most negative reaction coming from activists opposed to the expansion of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas in California.
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Here's another ripple from October's shutdown of the federal government: An has pushed back the deadline for public comments on a Northern California wind project's application to be allowed to kill eagles.
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It's a compelling, heroic narrative, but the usual suspects that impact large solar projects have reared their heads again.
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Bats have far more to fear from us than we do from them.
Never-built projects like this 1965 proposal for a man-made causeway along Santa Monica bay would have created an environmental disaster had it been built.
The Never Built: Los Angeles exhibit at A + D caused me to breathe a sigh of relief.
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Salmon and rice go well together on the dinner table, and it turns out they may be good partners in the watershed as well.
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A surprising visitor to Lake Merritt, the tidal lagoon in the heart of the East Bay city's downtown.
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As evidence mounts that the Palen solar project's mirrors and concentrated solar energy each pose risks to wild birds, the project's backers have proposed a plan to reduce bird injuries that includes using plastic owls.
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The Feds have proposed granting the Mono Basin sage grouse protection as a Threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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Living in isolation from their cousins, the eastern and western groups of Joshua trees have evolved different growth habits.
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The San Luis Valley in Colorado has been incredibly attractive to solar developers in the past, with at least three solar facilities already producing power and more on the drawing board. Why were there no takers?
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NOAA Fisheries has decided to remove the eastern population of the Steller sea lion from protection as a Threatened species.
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