The Salton Sea has long attracted people drawn to its strange landscape, but few embraced its isolation quite like Captain Charles E. Davis. Born into a wealthy Massachusetts family, Davis left home ...
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California’s Accidental Inland Sea: The Story Behind the Salton Sea’s Creation and Decline
The Salton Sea, California's accidental inland sea, has a fascinating and turbulent history that begins with a simple engineering mistake. Dive into the unexpected story of how this massive body of ...
Chris Iovenko provided some great background on the Salton Sea in a piece for us last November warning about the area’s toxic dust: At 235 feet below sea level, the Salton Sea occupies what was once ...
Humans have a history of engineering landscapes to fit our purposes, sometimes with disastrous results. The Salton Sea is California’s largest lake. With prolonged drought, the water level in the sea ...
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 ...
"Proceedings of a conference sponsored by Western Field Ornithologists and the Cooper Ornithological Society. Additional sponsorship by PRBO Conservation Science and the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
The Salton Sea is 200 feet below sea level, along with a portion of California. If we were to flood it from the Gulf of California, how much could we lower the sea levels by? I can't begin to figure ...
If you don't live near the fading banks of the Salton Sea, it's easy to forget it exists — that is, until the winds pick up. Depending on which way they are blowing, gusts carry tiny, toxic ...
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