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 ...

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 ...

That’s because the Salton Sea is filled primarily by agricultural runoff from farms in the Imperial Valley in far Southern California. Those farms have a single source of water: the Colorado River.

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Haze hung over the Salton Sea on a ...

It was 111 degrees when Mark McBroom stepped from his air-conditioned pickup and onto a dry alfalfa field. Remnants of desiccated hay crunched underfoot, and the sun-baked soil was fragmented with ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits of historic Highway 66 and then ...

California officials sent water flowing to create new wetlands along the shores of the shrinking Salton Sea. The project is intended to control dust and provide habitat for fish and birds. Gov. Gavin ...