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

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

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

Imperial Valley native Julius Olivas began his filmmaking journey at home. “I’m from Imperial Valley, but right now we’re ...

Emissions of hydrogen sulfide raise health concerns in communities near California's largest lake, researchers say.

The future of the Salton Sea is grim given climate change, the drying out of the west and the rapid increase in population and water users in the southwestern United States. But the sea itself ...

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 ... for California's Salton Sea.

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Unlike Owens Lake, the Salton Sea has two oceans close by; there are 13 proposals to build an aqueduct to import water — either from the ...

The Salton Sea, California's largest lake, has suffered from decades of environmental degradation, impacting the health of nearby residents and the local ecosystem. Recent funding allocations ...

Then the Salton Sea may be your jam ... There are fewer than 300 million cars and trucks registered in the United States today. So yeah, that’s a big deal. But for all the lake’s problems ...

Rising salinity, exacerbated by a shrinking freshwater supply from the chronically drought-plagued Colorado River, has made the Salton Sea ... no DLE plant in the United States has successfully ...