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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 reports are predictable in a year in which a very large number of California sea lions have been reported as starving.
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The Bureau of Land Management announced Wednesday that it's extending the public comment period on a proposed desert solar project in Riverside County until November 14 to make up for October's shutdown of the federal government.
The cascades, where water from the L.A. Aqueduct flows down from the San Gabriel Mountains into Los Angeles. | Photo: Courtesy of Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, The Claremont Colleges
The L.A. Aqueduct made Los Angeles great -- at quite a cost.
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Seventeen American startups working on innovation in the solar sector have been awarded grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to further their research -- and eight of those companies are based in California.
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Two California condors found dead in firefighters' "dip tanks" west of Tehachapi in the past month.
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A small seabird whose population has been declining for several years has been denied protection under federal law.
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A ruling by a state commission requires the state's largest utilities to develop more than 1,300 megawatts of electrical power storage by 2020 but doesn't specify an actual capacity for that storage. That's led some tech-savvy members of the public to ...
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The fact that California holds undiscovered populations of wildlife is no surprise.
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If you think the conflict between rooftop solar advocates and big utilities seems heated here in California, you ought to cast a glimpse at our exotic neighbor to the east, Arizona. This week, the story took an interesting turn, as Arizona's largest ut...
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According to documents the plant's owners filed with the California Energy Commission a total of thirty dead birds were found at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in September, with 14 reported as showing signs of burn injuries.
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Update on the condor that was found dead in a water tank in the Tehachapi Mountains.
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A federal agency estimates that more than 2,000 desert tortoises may currently occupy the sites of a pair of large planned desert solar projects that would straddle the California/Nevada state line, but says developing the projects won't harm the speci...
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