Despite the focus on the bombing of the sea, the documentary doesn’t define the Salton Sea through this tragedy. Instead, it is dedicated to providing a deeper look at the history of the Salton Sea ...

In a promotional video from the documentary “Past Pleasures at the Salton Sea,” which features old footage that appears to date back to the 1960s, a disembodied voice describes the club as a ...

Correction: This segment stated that the Salton Sea area alone could produce nearly six times the lithium currently produced globally. This was a miscalculation. The region could produce an amount ...

Haze hung over the Salton Sea on a recent winter day, while black-necked stilts and kildeer waded in the shallows, pecking at ...

But as farmers face water cuts due to drought and an ever drier Colorado River, the Salton Sea stands to lose again. A dock that once extended onto the Salton Sea, the state’s largest lake ...

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 ...

But now they’re paying a hidden cost for living just two miles southeast of the Salton Sea. “I’ve been having very bad asthma lately,” the 56-year-old manager of the Oasis Mobile Village ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. When David Lo first visited the Salton Sea shore in the spring of 2018, he was struck by the sheer oddness of the place: the beach of barnacle ...

That’s because the Salton Sea is filled primarily by agricultural runoff from farms in the Imperial Valley in far Southern California. Those farms have a single source of water: the Colorado River.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Haze hung over the Salton Sea on a recent winter day, while black-necked stilts and kildeer waded in the shallows, pecking at crustaceans.