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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.

Playa Racetrack, Death Valley
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The genetic map of the Joshua tree may hold hints as to how to keep the trees around a while longer.
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Activist Erica Fernandez mobilized a community to oppose a gas pipeline while still in her mid-teens.
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Hill climbed her redwood in December 1997 expecting to be up there for two weeks. She descended more than two years later.
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Calls to move P-22 in the wake of a zoo koala death are misguided.
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Faced with an epidemic of incarceration, Sneed inspired the community to reinvent itself in the garden.
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Wildlife advocates say the Feds haven't looked hard enough at the effects of military base expansion.
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When Berkeley wanted to fill thousands of acres of the Bay, McLaughlin and two friends fought the power and won.
Whale
By focusing on Fukushima as a threat to whales, we’re ignoring the actual problems.
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A Mexican wolf was caught in the Mojave in 1922. With their other habitat under threat, maybe they should come back.
Border Bird Refuge
The border wall is a scar on the California landscape, but a string of wildlife refuges along the line show a different landscape is possible.
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A controversial logging project may kill or injure more than one percent of the owl's total population.
Water Safety
A looming project may make Stockton's drinking water worse, but it isn't the one that's been making the news.
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