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 ...

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A long-envisioned project that would create a separate lake along the north shore of the Salton Sea, providing recreational opportunities and habitat for fish and birds, is slowly inching closer to ...

Scientists say a vast trove of battery metal lies beneath a shrinking inland lake in California, a discovery they value at ...

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, ...

The long-delayed restoration of the Salton Sea, the large, ultra-briny California lake almost universally described as an “environmental disaster,’’ could be starting to finally get its sea legs. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

Engineers are busy studying the soil near the Salton Sea. This is where they’re planning on transforming more than 150 acres into a modern nature habitat. “This is one of the biggest projects, ...

In the days leading up to Tropical Storm Hilary, some on social media speculated whether the incoming deluge could help fill the shrinking Salton Sea. After all, the storm was forecasted to bring more ...

A shortage on the Colorado River has put tremendous pressure on the water supply that serves more than 40-million people in the Western United States. But a punishing drought and the over allocation ...