A lithium gold rush is erupting beneath California's Salton Sea, where a $540 billion discovery could supercharge U.S.

That was when the rampaging Colorado River broke loose from its channel and swung northwest, flowing into the Salton Sink, a desert basin whose center was 278 feet below sea level. In the year and ...

The Salton Sea, California's largest lake ... created in 1905 when a canal breach allowed millions of gallons of Colorado River water to spill out for almost two years, filling a desert basin.

After decades of failed attempts to preserve California's endlessly troubled 120-year-old Salton Sea, a myriad of new ... 120 years ago when the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal ...

the Salton Basin area has received Colorado River runoff for thousands of years, swelling and drying out in long historic cycles. Prior to the Salton Sea, Lake Cahuilla occupied a portion of the ...

California’s Salton Sea has just made it onto the map ... which could worsen shortages in the already struggling Colorado River.

The Salton Sea, California's largest lake ... because its current version was created in 1905 when a canal breach allowed millions of gallons of Colorado River water to spill out for almost two years, ...