Created by accident and transformed by time, the Salton Sea is one of California’s most surreal landscapes. In this one-day loop, we visit abandoned resort towns, bold desert art, and unexpected ...

In a landmark move for environmental policy, California has fully established and funded the Salton Sea Conservancy, the ...

The Salton Sea was once a tourist destination, a "Palm Springs with water." Now the largest lake in California is an environmental disaster: The water is toxic and the surrounding area abandoned. It ...

I grew up in the Salton Sea region in a mobile home community of farmworkers. Our corner of the unincorporated town Mecca lacked access to transportation, grocery stores, health clinics, sidewalks, ...

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 ...

In a move impacting both environmental and cultural initiatives, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the veto of two bills from ...

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Dust from California's drying Salton Sea doesn't just smell bad. Scientists from UC Riverside found that breathing the dust ...

The Imperial County sits on one of California’s richest subsurface energy prizes. For decades, our Valley has hosted steam ...