Located about 160 miles east of Los Angeles, the Salton Sea is California’s largest lake. Though bodies of water had filled the basin previously, the current sea formed in 1905, when water from the ...

A newly published study finds that California's Salton Sea emits hydrogen sulfide, a toxic and foul-smelling gas, at rates that regularly exceed the state's air quality standards. The presence of ...

Though bodies of water had filled the basin previously, the current sea formed in 1905, when water from the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal and spilled into the Salton Sink.

"The Salton Sea itself was accidentally created in 1905 when the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal, flooding the dry Salton Sink and forming the lake that exists today." ...

The crusty exposed lakebed that was once underwater just a few years ago shows how the current shoreline of the Salton Sea looks currently near Salton City, Calif., Sept. 13, 2024.

Sink or swim time for Salton Sea? Momentum builds for pricey lake restoration California's biggest lake has languished for decades as increased salinity, a sinking waterline and a foul smell have ...

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 Salton Sea occupies a much smaller footprint of what used to be Lake Cahuilla, which disappeared in the late 1500s. Then, in a wild spring runoff in 1905, the Colorado River blew out a ...

Then, in a wild spring runoff in 1905, the Colorado River blew out a diversion dam, and for the next three years the mighty Colorado drained into the Salton Sink. Agriculture runoff replenished the ...