The eighth largest saline lake in the world is a Utah icon. More than 10 million birds take sanctuary there every year.

The man-made Salton Sea is a haven for birdlife in the Colorado Desert of southeast California. Before I even stepped out of my tent, I knew it was going to be a crowded morning on the Salton Sea.

The 1950s and ’60s brought out the excesses of post-war revelers to the Salton Sea. You can see the salt-encrusted remains of former resorts and second homes of the Los Angeles fancy people.

The 1950s and ’60s brought out the excesses of postwar revelers to the Salton Sea. You can see the salt-encrusted remains of former resorts and second homes of the Los Angeles fancy people.

Its salt-encrusted shores circle about 340 square miles of sea. A silo-full of conspiracy theories features the Salton Sea: The military may have accidentally dropped a real bomb that did not explode.

Bombay Beach is pictured by the receding shoreline of the Salton Sea in Calif., on Dec. 11, 2023. (Photo: Kristin Murphy, Deseret News) Snowbirds flocked to Bombay during the winter months.

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 ...

Still, the sea persists. Its salt-encrusted shores circle about 340 square miles of sea. A silo-full of conspiracy theories features the Salton Sea: The military may have accidentally dropped a real ...

Like the famous Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and the Salton Sea in California, the salty expanse of Lake Urmia in Iran has been drying up and shrinking for decades. Now the lake ...

Some water bodies have no outlet, so water flows in but never flows out. The name scientists use to describe this is endorheic.

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