6:46 p.m. May 27, 2025: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to double-crested cormorants as double-breasted cormorants. Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of ...

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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 ...

After decades of failed attempts to preserve California's endlessly troubled 120-year-old Salton Sea, a myriad of new plans to save the salt-riddled lake are taking form. Scientists discovered a ...

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Dust from California's drying Salton Sea doesn't just smell bad. Scientists from UC Riverside found that breathing the dust ...

The Salton Sea has been called “the biggest environmental disaster in California history.” That’s partly due to its inhospitable nature and tendency to blow toxic dust all the way to Los Angeles. But ...

LOS ANGELES – Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of dry, sunbaked lake bed as California officials filled a complex of shallow ponds near the south shore of the Salton Sea in an ...