The Salton Sea spans across southern Riverside and northern Imperial counties in Southern California on the Pacific Flyway.

Decades ago, the Salton Sea was one of California's most beloved tourist destinations, attracting the likes of Frank Sinatra, ...

California officials sent water flowing to create new wetlands along the shores of the shrinking Salton Sea. The project is ...

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 ...

Salton Sea's crashing ecosystem. Like scanning a dying roadside motel for signs of life, scientists in recent years had increasingly despaired of finding major bird life at the ever-saltier, ever ...

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 ...

At 35 miles long and 15 miles wide, the Salton Sea is California’s largest lake. Its most recent incarnation formed in 1905, when the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal and millions of ...

Residents across the Los Angeles Basin and surrounding regions may notice low-flying aircraft maneuvering over urban centers ...

After years of delays, the California Department of Water Resources and its contractors have almost completed 4,000 acres of potential wetland at the sea's southern end — that’s bigger than ...