Tom Sephton, the president of Sephton Water Technology, gave a presentation about water quality restoration at the Salton Sea during the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, ...

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SALTON CITY, Calif. -- Efforts to save the Salton Sea, an important but endangered habitat, are in jeopardy as California races a federal deadline to reduce its use of Colorado River water and ...

The Salton Sea is a terminal saltwater lake. It’s a flooded basin with no natural outlet, similar to the Great Salt Lake or the Aral Sea. And the Salton Sea is shrinking. One of the reasons for that ...

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 ...

Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits of historic Highway 66 and then skirt Joshua Tree National Park to cruise ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story was updated to correct a misspelling and a typo.) On a recent toasty morning at the edge of California's largest lake, Samantha Arthur stood half a mile ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article incorrectly characterized the distance between the Salton Sea and Los Angeles. It is about 150 miles southeast of L.A. After trudging ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits of historic Highway 66 and then ...