one of the world’s largest lithium mines, when he recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by civic and environmental groups. Hell’s Kitchen, in the Salton Sea, promises to unearth a motherlode of ...

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 ...

It would be hard to find two landscapes in the continental United States more different than the flat, arid desert of California’s Imperial Valley and the forested, stream-laced mountains of ...

The Salton Sea will likely remain a curiosity and hiding place for the weird until some real monster beneath the sea emerges, which could be a rush to start mining lithium made by the sea. On the ...

The Salton Sea will likely remain a curiosity and hiding place for the weird until some real monster beneath the sea emerges, which could be a rush to start mining lithium made by the sea.

Created by former President Joe Biden just days before he left office, Chuckwalla National Monument will further protect desert habitat in Southern California.

Researchers from the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences published a study assessing the viability of an alternative ...

I recently reported for CalMatters that a lithium mining company, Controlled Thermal Resources, received a greenlight to begin its Hell’s Kitchen lithium extraction project near the Salton Sea.

The Trump administration has moved to fast-track upward of 600 permits for a range of infrastructure projects, including ...