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 ...
As state conservationists reduce the agricultural runoff that flows into the Salton Sea, the lake is slowly disappearing. A combination of development and lithium mining may promise more economic ...
Furthermore, experts say, the dust problem is likely to intensify in a hotter climate, with evaporation exposing more and more of the lake bed, or playa, leading to more dust events. Salton Sea ...
The Salton Sea's shoreline receded by about 40 feet a year between 2002 and 2017, but this rate rose to roughly 120 feet per year between 2017 to 2020.
The Salton Sea, California's largest lake by surface area, is experiencing an increasing rate of shoreline retreat following a policy change that shifted more water from the Colorado River to San ...
Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the environment to technology and archaeology. The Salton Sea in southern ...
The Salton Sea, California’s largest lake by surface area, is experiencing an increasing rate of shoreline retreat following a policy change that shifted more water from the Colorado River to ...
The Salton Sea was created in 1905 by an accidental breach of the adjacent canal system, and until recently, the artificial lake was sustained predominantly by irrigation runoff from nearby farms ...