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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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A wildlife biologist grad student at Duke University wants to remedy our lack of knowledge about desert kit foxes, and she's using some remarkably new technology to do so -- both in the field and on the Internet.
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An Oklahoma firm has produced a map showing the regional energy scenes across the United States, and the results are interesting -- though some of what's going on in California doesn't really show.
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Palo Alto, home to Stanford University and a frillion startups, says it will be run on entirely carbon-neutral electrical power by 2017.
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How odd that in Moab one federal agency sought to preserve wild nature and another promoted the rapid exploitation of nature's rare-earth minerals to incinerate our enemies.
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Though regulators are insisting that Pacific Gas & Electric pay a record $2.25 billion in penalties for its role in a disastrous September 2010 gas line explosion in San Bruno, a ratepayer activist group says that doesn't go nearly far enough.
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In case you thought the wildlife and wind turbine conflict issue was limited to eagles, condors, and California, think again. A Vermont wind installation is seeking permission to legally kill four little brown bats a year with its turbines, and says th...
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The head of the safety division of California's ratepayer protection agency has blasted Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) over the utility's reaction to a proposed $2.25 billon penalty stemming from a 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno that killed ...
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Los Angeles is on track to lose up to 40 percent of its snowfall in nearly four decades, according to a UCLA study released today.
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When the sun shines in my eyes, sunset's an hour off, and it's time to walk out into the desert.
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I love noise. Or at least, I thought I did. Here, buffered by mountains and distance, the great urban lion has been hushed.
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The least terns that had set up shop at the Malibu Lagoon for the first time in 73 years have returned to Venice Beach as of last Saturday.
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Southern California Edison has made it official: the utility informed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that it has closed down the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station forever.
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