In an aerial view, steam rises from fumaroles, or steam vents, situated between two of the five Salton Buttes lava dome volcanoes that line the southeastern edge of the Salton Sea and are heated ...

A view of the ever-growing dry lakebed of the Salton Sea in the California desert. David McNew/Getty Images for Lumix The new Salton Sea Conservancy, at least, is in state, not federal, hands.

At 35 miles long and 15 miles wide, the Salton Sea is California’s largest lake. Its most recent incarnation formed in 1905, when the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal and millions of ...

An aerial view of agricultural fields with the shrinking Salton Sea in the distance. Mecca, California, July 2022. (Photo credit: ... who grew up around the Salton Sea. The California Air Resources ...

As the Salton Sea shrinks, a crisis deepens. The water levels of the 345-square-mile lake, located in an arid swath of agricultural land in Southern California’s Imperial County, have been ...

Salton Sea's crashing ecosystem. Like scanning a dying roadside motel for signs of life, scientists in recent years had increasingly despaired of finding major bird life at the ever-saltier, ever ...

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 ...

California’s 10-year plan for the Salton Sea, which came out in 2017, called for building nearly 30,000 acres of dust-control projects and wetland habitat around the lake by 2028. The state has ...