But now they’re paying a hidden cost for living just two miles southeast of the Salton Sea. “I’ve been having very bad asthma lately,” the 56-year-old manager of the Oasis Mobile Village ...

But as farmers face water cuts due to drought and an ever drier Colorado River, the Salton Sea stands to lose again. A dock that once extended onto the Salton Sea, the state’s largest lake ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits of historic Highway 66 and then skirt Joshua Tree National Park to ...

Haze hung over the Salton Sea on a recent winter day, while black-necked stilts and kildeer waded in the shallows, pecking at ...

After decades of failed attempts to preserve California's endlessly troubled 120-year-old Salton Sea, a myriad of new plans to save the salt-riddled lake are taking form. Scientists discovered a ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. When David Lo first visited the Salton Sea shore in the spring of 2018, he was struck by the sheer oddness of the place: the beach of barnacle ...

The Salton Sea, California's largest lake, has suffered from decades of environmental degradation, impacting the health of nearby residents and the local ecosystem. Recent funding allocations ...

Officials gathered in a small metal hangar at the south end of the Salton Sea on Thursday to celebrate $72 million in funding for restoration efforts at the Salton Sea, marking the first major ...

The Salton Sea is a terminal saltwater lake. It’s a flooded basin with no natural outlet, similar to the Great Salt Lake or the Aral Sea. And the Salton Sea is shrinking. One of the reasons for ...