In a single loop around Southern California’s accidental lake, this route reveals surreal landmarks—Salvation Mountain, Bombay Beach installations, GTA inspiration sites, and haunting traces of ...

No imperiled saline lake anywhere in the world has been rescued. Gov. Spencer Cox is confident Utah will be the first to succeed.

We explored an abandoned ghost town that transitioned from a bustling 1960s boom town to a desolate site due to human error and agricultural runoff affecting the Salton Sea. The increasing salinity of ...

More than 1 million government employees aren't getting paid and 42 million impoverished Americans—children and seniors—will ...

Dawn comes quietly to the Salton Sea. The first light spills over the Chocolate Mountains, turning the still water the color ...

In the early 2000s, the owners of the Mammoth Pacific geothermal station proposed expanding the plant into an area just east of California’s Yosemite National Park. The project boasted on its website ...

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 ...

A new report by UCLA finds that conditions at the Salton Sea are worse than state data suggests. As morning anchor Angela Chen shows us, scientists are highlighting a critical shortcoming in the ...

Dust from California’s drying Salton Sea doesn’t just smell bad. Scientists from UC Riverside found that breathing the dust can quickly re-shape the microscopic world inside the lungs. Genetic or ...

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 14, 2025 – 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 ...