Research finds children living closer to shrinking lake show respiratory issues from dust containing harmful bacterial ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Haze hung over the Salton Sea on a recent winter day, while black-necked stilts and kildeer waded in the shallows, ...

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 ...

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6:46 p.m. May 27, 2025: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to double-crested cormorants as double-breasted cormorants. Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of ...

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. This could be a game changer for the U.S., bringing ...

The long-delayed restoration of the Salton Sea, the large, ultra-briny California lake almost universally described as an “environmental disaster,’’ could be starting to finally get its sea legs. But ...

Home to only 150 or so people most of the year, the Salton Sea in southern California —”created by the collision of geology and bad luck”—swells to 4,000 during the winter as people come to escape the ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A rumbling out at sea this week could be a warning of a big earthquake coming to California and little ripple in waters southeast of Palm Springs may be the precursor to "the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The U.S. Geological Survey ...

California launches a $500M effort to clean up and restore the Salton Sea. California has launched a $500 million plan to restore the shrinking and polluted Salton Sea. The project includes the ...