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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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It's plugged, thank goodness, but there are still important things to keep in mind about the Aliso Canyon disaster.
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No American mammal was more endangered than California's island fox. And now the Feds say the fox has recovered.
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1.8 million acres of the California Desert will be protected in three new National Monuments.
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OK, this time we really mean it: the Palen Solar project in Riverside County is dead. Probably.
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"We have this idea that nature exists in some place you have to drive to," says the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum's Jann Vendetti.
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We've spent millions to restore the California condor to its former range, but that range is still full of the same old threats.
The Deceptive Recovery of the California Condor
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We've spent millions to restore the California condor to its former range across the Southwest... a landscape that's still full of the same threats that put the condor at risk of extinction in the first place.
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Malheur's occupiers tried to take our public lands with a six-gun. The Coastal Commission wants to do the same thing with a fountain pen.
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We're glad to admit we were wrong when we suggested the Delta smelt might already be extinct. We just wish we were a lot wronger.
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Coyote C-146 had the bad luck to live in a landscape full of California's most dangerous animal species.
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A controversial 2015 report suggested logging could increase the state's water supply. Wrong.
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There are new and fearsome predators in the Santa Monica Mountains. Try not to hurt yourself squeeing.
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