Dean: Once upon a time, the Salton Sea was a natural sea in Southern California. But similar to Death Valley, it started to dry up — until white settlers came along. These folks built up ...

Company execs say Comite Civico del Valle wants cash out of self-interest, but nonprofit head says that's false, it was for ...

Flanked by the Chocolate Mountains and the fertile green acres of California's Imperial Valley, the Salton Sea is one of the most spectacular and bizarre bodies of water in the United States.

a fourth-generation Imperial Valley farmer who works 2,000 acres of sugar beets, alfalfa, wheat, and carrots at the southern end of the Salton Sea. That price is much higher than the going rate to ...

HEAVY RAINFALL. ONE OF THE HOTTEST AND DRIEST PLACES IN THE COUNTRY HAS AN UNEXPECTED VISITING ATTRACTION RIGHT NOW. THE BADWATER BASIN IN DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK IS USUALLY A DRY, SALT FLAT ...

Death Valley doesn’t sound like a place anyone would want to visit. With summertime temperatures regularly soaring well into the triple digits, even in the shade, it can feel like an inferno.

To irrigate their fields, the valley’s farmers rely completely on Colorado River water, which arrives by an 80-mile-long canal. And the Salton Sea, the state’s largest lake, relies on water ...

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Since Death Valley is an internal basin, meaning the water does not drain out to sea, the remnants of the heavy rainfall remain -- but it won't be there forever, Wines said. Currently, the lake ...