Like the famous Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan ... of its surface area in the past 14 years. Sharp, white salt crystals left behind by evaporation now surround the shrinking rust ...

After decades of failed attempts to preserve California's endlessly troubled 120-year-old Salton Sea, a myriad of new plans to save the salt-riddled lake are taking form. Scientists discovered a ...

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 ...

California’s Salton Sea has just made it onto the map of the planet’s largest ‘White gold’ aka lithium deposits, with a value of up to $540 billion. With $540 billion in lithium ...

Not that you have to be Hippocrates to understand the benefits of salt water—anyone who has spent a leisurely afternoon swimming in the sea can probably attest to the benefits of sea salt for ...

A new conservancy will oversee work to improve vegetation, water quality and natural habitat in the Salton Sea. Will nearly half a billion dollars in projects be enough? This story was originally ...

Dennis Hinkamp makes an annual pilgrimage to the sea’s dusty, salt-encrusted shores for a week, relishing its peculiar delights. Hay bales near Bombay Beach and Salton City, California, are a project ...

The 1950s and ’60s brought out the excesses of post-war revelers to the Salton Sea. You can see the salt-encrusted remains of former resorts and second homes of the Los Angeles fancy people.

Moreover, levels of nitrogen and phosphorous in the sea are “magnitudes higher” than at other salt ... in the Salton Sea, Lyons said, that it has 10 times the amount of sulfate measured in seawater.

(Getty) At least one-quarter of all nitrogen oxide (NO x) emissions in California’s Salton Sea air basin come from soil, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. Lea este ...

EL CENTRO, Calif. (CN) — Mining lithium from the drying Salton Sea could bring jobs and much-needed tax revenue to one of California's poorest counties, boosters say. But when Imperial County approved ...