Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits ...

But as the lake bed became exposed, the Salton Sea began to shrink. It was then reported that the winds started sending clouds of toxic dust into the nearby communities. “Few issues need the ...

Researchers have linked the dust that blows off the playa to the region's abnormally high rates of childhood asthma. The rural communities that surround the Salton Sea, their populations majority ...

“This is already a degraded region, not only from the impacts of agriculture, but also the receding Salton Sea itself.” Blair ...

"It's not enough just pushing around dust." In January, V. Manuel Perez, the fourth district supervisor of Riverside County, proposed the latest plan to save the Salton Sea: a $400 million project ...

Health problems such as asthma in children, impairment in proper lung development, wheezing, chronic bronchitis and even more serious diseases such as emphysema are associated with the type of ...

The highest levels sit in Imperial County, Salton Sea and parts of Los Angeles closer to the coast. And a windblown dust advisory has been issued for nearly the entire South Coast Air Basin which ...

but also the receding Salton Sea itself.” Blair told CalMatters the environmental review is fuzzy about how much toxic dust the mine would produce, how much water is needed to dilute the brine ...