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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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There have been no recorded human deaths at the hands of California black bears. Here's how we can keep it that way.
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This Los Angeles-based entomologist didn't set out to document an entirely new ecosystem. He just sort of stumbled on it.
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The emails were sent over several years by two senior agency scientists working on toxic contamination in communities of color.
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The Peninsular bighorn sheep needs connected habitat to survive into the 22nd century -- and a fortified border won't help.
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Central Valley Republicans attempt to rewrite California water law to benefit large farms without the public noticing.
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A new male mountain lion in the Santa Monica Mountains raises questions. Where did he come from? And where did the last male go?
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The Spanish firm Abengoa has initiated bankruptcy proceedings, and the fate of at least one controversial solar project hangs in the balance.
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SoCalGas' natural gas leak in Aliso Canyon just wiped out your climate gains.
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Whatever parochial differences once seemed to divide NorCal and SoCal are increasingly trivial. It's time we all got over them.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior is moving to a smarter, wide-scale planning that safeguards our most important lands.
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An activist who worked for this week's ban on bobcat trapping in California looks back at the complex road to protection.
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Despite legislative attempts to block full protection, most Californians favor preserving huge swaths of the California Desert.
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