This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. I grew up in the Salton Sea region in a mobile home community of farmworkers. Our corner of the unincorporated ...

The Salton Sea – unfairly – gets a bad rap. Stories of widespread fish die-offs in the 1980s and 1990s depict a place in irreversible decline. Such disasters make the place that I call home seem like ...

California is at a policy and fiscal crossroads. It must decide whether to rewrite the extraction business model to benefit impacted communities, or to continue with the traditional model that causes ...

A dried-up former boating dock is seen along the Salton Sea July 14, 2021, in Desert Shores, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) SAN DIEGO (CN) — Back in 2003, farmers in California's Imperial ...

To the editor: For Imperial Valley residents reading between the lines, the article about the decline in respiratory health for people living near the evaporating Salton Sea chronicles the ...

Want to produce a huge amount of lithium for electric vehicle batteries — and also batteries that keep our homes powered after sundown — without causing the environmental destruction that lithium ...

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The largest lake in California, the Imperial Valley’s Salton Sea, was once home to booming farming and fishing communities, not to mention a glittering tourist oasis in the desert that drew everyone ...

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 ...

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, ...