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 ...

To the editor: Anyone who says the Salton Sea is just a man-made lake that exists only because of an accident more than 100 years ago shows a glaring ignorance of the natural history of the area. The ...

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, ...

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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 ...

In 1905, a breach in the Alamo Canal caused massive flooding that created California’s Salton Sea, submerging towns and damaging infrastructure. Join us as we explore the remains of the canal and the ...

A welcome sign stands at the entrance to Desert Shores next to the shrinking Salton Sea on Sept. 24. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: I believe it's disingenuous to write about ...