The water quality has changed.” Other than its origin story, the Salton Sea and Utah’s Great Salt Lake share some commonalities. Both are drying terminal lakes hurt by the West’s drought and ...

Social and environmental groups claimed the project could cause water and air problems not disclosed in an environmental ...

Judge says county officials adequately studied water and air quality issues for the Hells Kitchen project near the edge of ...

Agricultural runoff to the Salton Sea brings pollutants, including hydrogen sulfide, which becomes enmeshed in dried lakebed ...

But the Salton Sea is just 43 feet at its maximum depth. It formed by accident in 1905, when the Colorado River, swollen from heavy rains, broke through a canal and flooded into the dry Salton Sink.

The dry lakebed of Calfironia's Salton Sea. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use ...

There is a sea in the California desert, just 50 miles south of Palm Springs. Created over 100 years ago, the Salton Sea is a man-made body of water that was a popular tourist attraction in the ...

CALIPATRIA— Birders flocked to the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge early morning on Saturday, Jan. 18, ...

the first of several related projects which Controlled Thermal Resources aims to develop along the fast-drying southern edge of the Salton Sea, between Calipatria and Niland. Largely destitute ...