The Salton Sea is shrinking, which is harming both humans and birds. A plan to create pop-up wetlands may help both.

Scientists say the findings should push public officials to do more to conserve migratory bird habitat elsewhere in the state ...

Salton Sea advocates contend with many longstanding ... members spent numerous days from 2019 to 2021 creating a series of maps using balloons outfitted with cameras suspended 200 feet above ...

The beleaguered California lake is running low and might be poisoning nearby communities with toxic hydrogen sulfide gas.

A century later, the Salton Sea — California’s largest lake ... Bombay Beach occupies a low spot on the map. Many of the shoreline community’s trailer homes are rusting into the earth ...

This undated map of the Salton Sea basin shows the shape and size of a full Lake Cahuilla as indicated by the dotted red line. Before the Colorado River was tamed by dams and dikes it was a free ...

A seismic map of the Salton Sea area reveals the grid covered by the CHIRP instrument (green lines), faults (black lines) and bomb target sites (gray boxes). The red dots represent earthquakes ...

See a map of completed and ongoing Salton Sea restoration projects here. “IID is doing the right thing conserving water to stabilize the Colorado River, and our federal partners stepped up to ...

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 ...

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 ...