The Salton Sea is an unusual lake that came into existence due to floodwaters from the Colorado River in 1905. Once a thriving recreational destination in the 1950s and 1960s, it is now surrounded by ...

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A study examining air quality and respiratory health in communities surrounding the Salton Sea in Southern California shows how environmental conditions, poor housing quality and structural inequities ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom highlighting the dramatic decline of the Salton Sea’s water levels. Newsom made the remark while announcing the creation of the Salton Sea Conservancy, a new state agency ...

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Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of dry, sunbaked lake bed as California officials filled a complex of shallow ponds near the south shore of the Salton Sea in an effort to create ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The long-delayed restoration of the Salton Sea, the large, ultra-briny California lake almost universally described as an ...

Windblown dust from the shrinking Salton Sea harms the respiratory health of children living nearby, triggering asthma, coughing, wheezing and disrupted sleep, USC research shows. The problem is ...

Children living near the Salton Sea, in Southern California's desert region of Imperial County, are experiencing poorer lung function than children exposed to less wind-blown dust, according to a new ...

To the editor: I believe it’s disingenuous to write about the drying Salton Sea without including the fact that the desert lake is not a naturally occurring body of water. (“As California farms use ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Critics of a proposed lithium mine near the Salton Sea entered round two of their fight to force stricter ...