Give the Salton Sea — and the farmworkers who call it home a fighting chance The Salton Sea – unfairly – gets a bad rap. Stories o f widespread fish die-offs in the 1980s and 1990s depict a ...

Changes to the Salton Sea show up in strange ways, like the series of hats that mark the decreasing depth of the lake (from 240 feet to 239 feet here). Photo by Brandon R. Reynolds. To save the birds ...

Right now, the Salton Sea is best known as an environmental disaster in the making. As fossil fuels heat the planet, water levels have fallen at Lake Mead, forcing farmers in California’s ...

But researchers have found that there is still something in the dust that is causing higher rates of asthma among people living near the Salton Sea. Dr. David Lo, director of UC Riverside’s ...

Her team confirmed that LPS in the Salton Sea can survive in aerosols emitted as lake spray, a bigger concern when winds churn the sea’s surface and can carry particles up to 30 miles away. Additional ...

Except -- Salton Sea experts say they're not too worried because of our ongoing drought. "We're going into the 22nd year of drought of the Colorado River.