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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A visitor takes a selfie in Bombay Beach, a community on the Salton Sea, on May 16. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) To the editor ...

The Salton Sea is hardly natural, and it wasn’t an accident either. Rather, it was the result of a deliberate and prohibited act, complicated by a fatal miscalculation. More on that in a moment.

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 ...

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 ...

Home to only 150 or so people most of the year, the Salton Sea in southern California —”created by the collision of geology and bad luck”—swells to 4,000 during the winter as people come to escape the ...

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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 ...

To the editor: Brent M. Haddad and Robert Glennon got it wrong in their op-ed article, “Restore the Salton Sea not to its former size but to its role in the ecosystem.” The Salton Sea can’t be saved ...

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 ...