The Salton Sea is an unusual lake that came into existence due to floodwaters from the Colorado River in 1905. Once a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an aerial view, steam rises from fumaroles, or steam vents, situated between two of the five Salton Buttes lava dome volcanoes ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom highlighting the dramatic decline of the Salton Sea’s water levels. Newsom made the remark while announcing the creation of the Salton Sea Conservancy, a new state agency ...

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Southern California's Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake in the 1950s and '60s. Today, those resorts are long gone, ...

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, ...

Children living near the Salton Sea, in Southern California's desert region of Imperial County, are experiencing poorer lung function than children exposed to less wind-blown dust, according to a new ...

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 effort to create ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The long-delayed restoration of the Salton Sea, the large, ultra-briny California lake almost universally described as an ...

California's Salton Sea is an important part of the Colorado River system in the state. (Photo: DWR) Federal, state and local agencies are trying to figure out how to use new legal authority and an ...