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 in Imperial County is bigger than Lake Tahoe. Created by accident 110 years ago, it became a habitat for fish, migratory birds—and Hollywood celebrities. But now it's become a dustbowl ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Amazing America TV) — It was once heralded as being the perfect getaway for Hollywood's elite. Today, the Salton Sea is perhaps one of California's greatest cautionary tales. Amazing ...

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 ...

During the study, researchers exposed healthy mice to dust from the Salton Sea and observed significant changes.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...