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.

A new study by Audubon California has found a 15% increase in the number of shore birds at the Salton Sea, despite a prolonged ecological decline there. The findings are surprising because in ...

If you know anything about the Salton Sea, maybe you’ve heard that California’s largest lake has been shrinking for decades, the fish are dying, and toxic dust from the lakebed is blowing around the ...

A tattered American flag stands on a post next to the shrinking Salton Sea in the Imperial Valley on Sept. 25, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/TNS ...