Early in 1905, the first of five floods surged down the diversionary canal, and attempts to close it became futile. By the ...

The parched carcass of a tilapia is half buried in the dried bones and scales of millions of other tilapia that have died and washed ashore at the Salton Sea State Recreation Area. The stagnant lake ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Haze hung over the Salton Sea on a recent winter day, while black-necked stilts and kildeer waded in the shallows, ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. When David Lo first visited the Salton Sea shore in the spring of 2018, he was struck by the sheer oddness of the place: the beach of barnacle shells ...

Once-bustling marinas on shallow water in California's largest lake a few years ago are bone-dry. Carcasses of oxygen-starved tilapia lie on desolate shores. Flocks of eared grebes and shoreline birds ...

To the editor: I believe it’s disingenuous to write about the drying Salton Sea without including the fact that the desert lake is not a naturally occurring body of water. (“As California farms use ...

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