The community of Desert Shores on the northwest side of the Salton Sea. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) For as long as the Salton Sea has faced the threat of ecological collapse, some local ...

"We figured we could keep water in there for another six months at least," said Tom Sephton, a longtime Brawley resident and local businessman, who like many is captivated by California's largest ...

An independent review panel convened to evaluate water importation concepts for the shrinking Salton Sea is advising against water importation plans, instead recommending a combination of desalination ...

The parched carcass of a tilapia is half buried in the dried bones and scales of millions of other tilapia that have died and washed ashore at the Salton Sea State Recreation Area. The stagnant lake ...

A dried-up former boating dock is seen along the Salton Sea July 14, 2021, in Desert Shores, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) SAN DIEGO (CN) — Back in 2003, farmers in California's Imperial ...

An independent review panel supported by UC Santa Cruz recently completed its work evaluating restoration options for the Salton Sea, a shrinking lake in Southern California that has become one of the ...

Those drawn to the other-wordly landscape surrounding the Salton Sea, some 45 minutes southeast of Palm Springs, have long been lured by potential. Potential to plant crops that help feed the country ...

How is California’s rapidly shrinking Salton Sea contributing to dust pollution in the Golden State? This is what a recent study published in Geographies hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

Ana Rosa Villegas López points to the scattered images of her son on the walls of the Mecca Public Library in Southern California. In one, he stares straight at the camera, his sleeplessness etched ...

Fast-forward 174 years from the start of the California Gold Rush in 1848 and zip southeasterly about 460 miles from the location that sparked that frenzy, and you'll land at the Salton Sea in 2022.

SACRAMENTO — People have been fighting Salton Sea shrinkage, salinity and stench for decades without much success. But now the local economy could be headed toward a boom. Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying ...

University of California, Riverside scientists will join a first-of-its-kind effort to map out California’s so-called “Lithium Valley,” and learn whether it can meet America’s urgent demand for ...