Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: The Salton Sea is a man-made accident. Efforts to save it should consider that

To the editor: I believe it’s disingenuous to write about the drying Salton Sea without including the fact that the desert lake is not a naturally occurring body of water. (“As California farms use ...
Los Angeles Times

The Salton Sea is now smelly all year long and making people’s asthma worse. The culprit? Bacteria

Five years ago, Lisa Clark and her husband left her hometown of El Centro for Niland, a small town of 500, in search for more affordable housing. But now they’re paying a hidden cost for living just ...
Phys.org

Salton Sea, an area rich with lithium, is a hot spot for child respiratory issues

Windblown dust from the shrinking Salton Sea harms the respiratory health of children living nearby, triggering asthma, coughing, wheezing and disrupted sleep, USC research shows. The findings also ...
Yahoo

Human actions created the Salton Sea, California's largest lake – here's how to save it from collapse, protecting wild birds and human health

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exposed lakebed at the Salton Sea on Dec. 29, 2022. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images The Salton Sea ...

What Utah can learn from California’s Salton Sea

Lounging by the pool was fun and all, but what I really wanted to do was swing by the Salton Sea. For some reason I couldn’t ...
CounterPunch

Toxic Dust From California’s Shrinking Salton Sea is Harming Children’s Lungs

Toxic haze over the Salton Sea. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Southern California’s Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

The Salton Sea is California’s most imperiled lake. Can a new conservancy save it?

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, ...
Agri-Pulse

With fresh funding, Salton Sea managers examine restoration progress

California's Salton Sea is an important part of the Colorado River system in the state. (Photo: DWR) Federal, state and local agencies are trying to figure out how to use new legal authority and an ...
Yahoo

The Salton Sea is now smelly all year long and making people's asthma worse. The culprit? Bacteria

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The parched carcass of a tilapia is half buried in the dried bones and scales of millions of other tilapia that have died and ...
The Conversation

Human actions created the Salton Sea, California’s largest lake – here’s how to save it from collapse, protecting wild birds and human health

The Salton Sea spreads across a remote valley in California’s lower Colorado Desert, 40 miles (65 kilometers) from the Mexican border. For birds migrating along the Pacific coast, it’s an avian Grand ...