The Salton Sea, California's accidental inland sea, has a fascinating and turbulent history that begins with a simple engineering mistake. Dive into the unexpected story of how this massive body of ...

Saudi Arabia, of course, isn't the only place where engineering brought water to the desert. Here in California, we accidentally created the state's largest lake back in 1905 after the Colorado River ...

The Salton Sea, often called California’s accidental desert ocean, has a fascinating and complicated past. Formed by a mistake in the early 1900s, it quickly became a booming vacation hotspot before ...

9:36 a.m. Aug. 18, 2025: An earlier version of this story credited a 2023 health study in the Imperial Valley to UC Riverside. In fact, the study was carried out by the Department of Preventive ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A rumbling out at sea this week could be a warning of a big earthquake coming to California and little ripple in waters southeast of Palm Springs may be the precursor to "the ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Critics of a proposed lithium mine near the Salton Sea entered round two of their fight to force stricter ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Residents around the Salton Sea have long complained of respiratory ailments from particulate pollution that wafts ...

Pollution from the expanding shoreline of the Salton Sea may not be significant contributor to the region’s air problems. Some researchers suggest more emphasis on what people are breathing at home, ...

Off-road vehicles are driven on the property owned by Controlled Thermal Resources, which will be mined for lithium along the Salton Sea, in Niland, Calif., Thursday, July 15, 2021. Welcome to ...

Residents around the Salton Sea have long complained of respiratory ailments from particulate pollution that wafts from its shoreline. Now UCLA researchers have identified another air pollutant that ...