Once a booming resort destination, the Salton Sea is now one of California’s most surreal and haunting landscapes. In this video, we explore the eerie beauty of this dying lake, from its abandoned ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Salton Sea sits quietly in Southern California’s Imperial Valley, a vast, shimmering inland lake born from an engineering miscalculation in 1905. Over a century later, it has become a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Putrid, potentially harmful levels of hydrogen sulfide blow off the fast-drying Salton Sea far more often than what is recorded by regional air regulators, according to new research. The gap is likely ...