More information: Heather C. Lieb et al, Nitrogen isotopes reveal high NOx emissions from arid agricultural soils in the Salton Sea Air Basin, Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024 ...

Heavy floodwaters breached a canal system in 1905, and water rushed into the Salton Sink, according to the Salton Sea Authority. By the 1950s, the sea southeast of Palm Springs had become a desert ...

The Salton Sea also throws in some wildly unexpected moments, like Vincent D’Onofrio ’s unhinged drug kingpin Pooh-Bear, who lost his nose to cocaine and now forces people to reenact the JFK ...

The Salton Sea Management Program along with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation establish nearly 1,700 acres of native vegetation enhancement around the Salton Sea on December 29, 2022 in Salton City ...

California officials sent water flowing to create new wetlands along the shores of the shrinking Salton Sea. The project is intended to control dust and provide habitat for birds.

Home to only 150 or so people most of the year, the Salton Sea in southern California —”created by the collision of geology and bad luck”—swells to 4,000 during the winter as people come to escape the ...