The Salton Sea is a landlocked, shallow lake in Riverside and Imperial counties. The lakebed has been contaminated for more than 100 years with pesticides and other chemicals that create dangerous ...

SAN DIEGO (CN) — Back in 2003, farmers in California's Imperial Valley agreed to send some of their Colorado River water to cities on the coast. The deal was touted as a win for thirsty Californians ...

When desert winds stir up dust from the Salton Sea’s exposed lakebed, nearby communities suffer from increased air pollution. The deterioration coincides with reduced flows into California’s ...

Salton Sea shrunk 50% faster during summer Colorado River conservation But a coalition of researchers and environmental justice groups charged last week that those measures and more rudimentary ...

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The Salton Sea, California’s largest lake, is drying at a rate of 1.3 million acre feet per year.

In exchange, IID and farmers who have already voluntarily stopped growing hay for 60 days this year, and who have pledged to do so each summer, could earn as much as a whopping $700 million in ...

If the lake were to completely dry up there would be a horror to behold. While at shrinking Lake Mead a few gangster cadavers showed up in the mud, the Salton Sea contains crashed planes and practice ...

The 1950s and 60s brought out the excesses of post-war revelers to the Salton Sea. You can see the salt-encrusted remains of former resorts and second homes of the Los Angeles fancy people.

The state of California has recently released 10 proposals for restoring the shrinking Salton Sea, a large body of salty water in Southeastern California created by a levee break in 1905. Although ...