The Salton Sea is hardly natural, and it wasn’t an accident either. Rather, it was the result of a deliberate and prohibited act, complicated by a fatal miscalculation. More on that in a moment.

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits of historic Highway 66 and then ...

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The California Legislature has passed and sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill to create the Salton Sea Conservancy to lead multi-million-dollar efforts to restore the shrinking and increasingly toxic ...

It would be possible, except that the state’s political culture prevents it. The Salton Sea has been called the biggest environmental disaster in California’s history. Formed in 1905 when a canal ...

SALTON SEA, Calif. (FOX 5/ KUSI) — “I can experience minor hallucinations,” said Irondad, while describing his trek around the edge of the mystical Salton Sea. He’s an activist, artist and ...

As it deteriorates, the ecosystem around the Salton Sea in Riverside County in Southern California, has been creating a toxic environment that hurts the health of children of immigrant families who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an aerial view, steam rises from fumaroles, or steam vents, situated between two of the five Salton Buttes lava dome volcanoes ...