Early in 1905, the first of five floods surged down the diversionary canal, and attempts to close it became futile. By the ...

The parched carcass of a tilapia is half buried in the dried bones and scales of millions of other tilapia that have died and washed ashore at the Salton Sea State Recreation Area. The stagnant lake ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

This article was originally featured on Undark. When David Lo first visited the Salton Sea shore in the spring of 2018, he was struck by the sheer oddness of the place: the beach of barnacle shells ...

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, ...

EL CENTRO, Calif. (KESQ) – The Imperial Irrigation District (IID) announced its transition from the Salton Sea Authority to the State of California’s newly established Salton Sea Conservancy. IID ...

Home to only 150 or so people most of the year, the Salton Sea in southern California —”created by the collision of geology and bad luck”—swells to 4,000 during the winter as people come to escape the ...

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 ...