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 ...

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 ...

California's Salton Sea appears to be shrinking even faster than before. The lake, which is the largest in the state by surface area at around 240,000 acres, has seen its shoreline retreating three ...

We explored an abandoned ghost town that transitioned from a bustling 1960s boom town to a desolate site due to human error ...

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 skirt Joshua Tree National Park to cruise ...

Standing atop a rocky outcrop on the southeastern edge of the Salton Sea in southern California, Bruce Wilcox pointed to the wooden ruins of a boat dock that dates back to the 1960s, when the region ...

The gas, which has a pungent rotten egg smell, typically lingers over the desert during warm summer months when temperatures in the basin can reach over 105 degrees Fahrenheit. But according to a May ...