Los Amigos de la Comunidad, Inc. will co-host the inaugural Imperial Valley Salton Sea Conference: Challenges and Opportunity ...

California's Salton Sea is an important part of the Colorado River system in the state. (Photo: DWR) Federal, state and local agencies are trying to figure out how to use new legal authority and ...

The Bombay Beach Institute By Tao Ruspoli In 2007, I stumbled upon a peculiar image in a bookstore: an Airstream ...

Las Arenitas is an artificial oasis that recycles used water from the border city of Mexicali to regenerate ecosystems in the ...

Stout Research Center at Anza Borrego Desert State Park is believed to house fragments of the longest continuous record of ...

In a letter to the IID board before Monday's vote, Michael Cohen, senior researcher with the Pacific Institute who has focused on protecting the Salton Sea and the Colorado River for more than 25 ...

Experts reveal former hotspots that have been overlooked, including a California lake that once had more visitors than ...

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 itself was accidentally created in 1905 when the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal, flooding the dry Salton Sink and forming the lake that exists today." From the 1920s ...

From Environmental Disaster to National Asset The Salton Sea, located in Southern California’s Imperial Valley, was formed in the early 1900s by a Colorado River aqueduct breach. Long considered ...

On a warm afternoon earlier this year, Wendy Miller pulled her white Nissan hatchback up alongside the embankment of a dusty farming canal near the south end of the Salton Sea, searching for the ...