In the days leading up to Tropical Storm Hilary, some on social media speculated whether the incoming deluge could help fill the shrinking Salton Sea. After all, the storm was forecasted to bring more ...

About 3 miles east of Bombay Beach, and a half-mile back from the Salton Sea’s receding shoreline, the crunchy exposed playa gives way from a mostly empty white landscape to more and more native ...

6:46 p.m. May 27, 2025: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to double-crested cormorants as double-breasted cormorants. Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of ...

To the editor: I believe it’s disingenuous to write about the drying Salton Sea without including the fact that the desert lake is not a naturally occurring body of water. (“As California farms use ...

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For various reasons, the Salton Sea is drying: rural-urban water transfers and sales, drought and manmade pollution. We have local water scarcity and poor-quality air. Due to urban population ...

Judge says county officials adequately studied water and air quality issues for the Hells Kitchen project near the edge of the Salton Sea.

A shortage on the Colorado River has put tremendous pressure on the water supply that serves more than 40-million people in the Western United States. But a punishing drought and the over allocation ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. This story is part of the Grist series Parched, an in-depth look at how ...

The 'Water Education for Latino Leaders' had the opportunity to tour the Salton Sea Saturday morning. The group also known as 'WELL' is made up of about twenty Latino elected officials from across ...