About 3 miles east of Bombay Beach, and a half-mile back from the Salton Sea’s receding shoreline, the crunchy exposed playa gives way from a mostly empty white landscape to more and more native ...

Dust from the Salton Sea playa is impacting nearby communities following water diversions to San Diego. (Getty) When desert winds stir up dust from the Salton Sea’s exposed lakebed, nearby communities ...

In the sweltering Coachella Valley, community advocates are calling for the state to transform its recreation area at the Salton Sea into a vibrant destination where families could gather in nature.

A dried-up former boating dock is seen along the Salton Sea July 14, 2021, in Desert Shores, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) SAN DIEGO (CN) — Back in 2003, farmers in California's Imperial ...

Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of dry, sunbaked lake bed as California officials filled a complex of shallow ponds near the south shore of the Salton Sea in an effort to create ...

Figure 1 from the UC Davis-led study uses satellite data to show the average spatial variation of nitrogen oxide in the Salton Sea Air Basin from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2023. The map was created in ...

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A seismic map of the Salton Sea area reveals the grid covered by the CHIRP instrument (green lines), faults (black lines) and bomb target sites (gray boxes). The red dots represent earthquakes that ...

SALTON SEA, Calif. — In a state boasting epic mountain ranges and stunning coastlines, the Salton Sea is not typically considered an outdoor-lover’s paradise. California’s largest inland lake, which ...

The Salton Sea is shrinking as less water flows in from the Colorado River, surrounding farms use more efficient irrigation and the planet warms. As water levels recede, the exposed lake bed is dry ...