California's biggest lake has languished for decades as increased salinity, a sinking waterline and a foul smell have robbed ...

A lithium gold rush is erupting beneath California's Salton Sea, where a $540 billion discovery could supercharge U.S. battery independence.

That was when the rampaging Colorado River broke loose from its channel and swung northwest, flowing into the Salton Sink, a desert basin whose center was 278 feet below sea level. In the year and ...

After decades of failed attempts to preserve California's endlessly troubled 120-year-old Salton Sea, a myriad of new ... 120 years ago when the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal ...

That concerns some in a county dependent on the dwindling Colorado River for all its water ... below Imperial County and the huge, drying Salton Sea on its northern edge is a vast brine reserve ...

The river has become a perfect symbol of what happens when we ask too much of a limited resource: it disappears. In fact, the Colorado no longer regularly reaches the sea. Invasive plants ...

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. I grew up in the Salton Sea region in a mobile home community of farmworkers. Our corner of the ...

California’s Salton Sea has just made it onto the map ... which could worsen shortages in the already struggling Colorado River.

State officials are weighing listing the tiny birds as an endangered species, a decision that could have big implications for the farming and renewable energy-focused county.

The long-delayed restoration of the Salton Sea, the large ... in 1905 when a canal breach allowed millions of gallons of Colorado River water to spill out for almost two years, filling a desert ...