Decades ago, the Salton Sea was one of California's most beloved tourist destinations, attracting the likes of Frank Sinatra, ...

The Salton Sea is one of the most environmentally significant places in California. The area attracts visitors wanting to ...

The federal government says it will spend $250 million over four years on environmental cleanup and restoration work around the drying Southern California lake, fed by the depleted Colorado River.

As water levels drop, so does tourism at the Salton Sea on Dec. 29, 2022, in Niland, California. Plans for The Bombay Beach Resort changed after the Salton Sea was formed in 1905 when Colorado ...

The Salton Sea, once a resort destination and now largely overlooked, could be the site of California‘s next gold rush – this time involving lithium.. A new study from the U.S. Department of ...

The dwindling Salton Sea, California's largest lake, is its backdrop. ... In the 1950s and '60s, Bombay was a bustling resort destination, much like Utah's defunct Great Saltair resort.

The California Salton Sea Management Program lists 18 restoration projects, including some key efforts already underway. Those include massive aquatic restoration projects as well as ...

Frank Ruiz, Salton Sea program director for Audubon California, and Michael Cohen, a senior researcher with the Pacific Institute who has spent decades focused on the Colorado River basin and the ...

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 cruise ...

The Salton Sea is nearly twice as salty as the ocean, laden with agricultural runoff and susceptible to algal blooms that spew hydrogen sulfide, a noxious gas.It’s also a haven to more than 400 ...

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 ...