Studying satellite images of dust over the last 20 years ... where the Anza Borrego desert stretches up to the western shore of Salton Sea, Evan says. Dust plumes billow up behind off-road vehicles, ...

Salton Sea advocates contend with many longstanding ... Researchers compared their findings with satellite images from 2002. They now hope their results can be part of efforts to restore the ...

California's Salton Sea appears to be shrinking even faster ... They describe how they studied balloon and satellite images of a section of the lake dating back over 20 years and calculated ...

At the Salton Sea State Recreation Area in Southern California, the smell of rotten eggs permeates the air. The odor is hydrogen sulfide, a gas produced by microbes in water depleted of oxygen. As the ...

These satellite photos show how the Salton Sea shrank between 1984 and 2015, exposing dry playa around its edges. Ultimately, the panel concluded that expanding the Salton Sea to its former size ...

The Salton Sea, California's largest lake, has suffered from decades of environmental degradation, impacting the health of nearby residents and the local ecosystem. Recent funding allocations ...

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 ...

After years of studies, public meetings and deliberation over the future of the receding Salton Sea, the first visible signs of major projects at the sea are starting to appear. Local and state ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.