Decades ago, the Salton Sea was one of California's most beloved tourist destinations, attracting the likes of Frank Sinatra, ...

Back when the Salton Sea was a thriving resort town, Bombay Beach was the place to be. However, today it is home to discarded ...

Before then, it would be safe to say that Bombay Beach was thriving. Established in the early 1920s, the town is nestled on the shore of the Salton Sea, a body of water created by accident at the ...

The Salton Sea Management Program along with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation establish nearly 1,700 acres of native vegetation enhancement around the Salton Sea on December 29, 2022 in Salton City ...

Bombay Beach is an artisan hamlet on the east side of the Salton Sea, dotted with rusted trailers, abandoned cars and pop-up art installments. First: The Salton Sea at Bombay Beach on Feb. 4, 2023.

The Salton Sea has been rapidly shrinking in recent years. Once a shoreline community, Bombay Beach is now landlocked, thousands of feet from the water’s edge. Image courtesy of Scott London ...

The vast California lake relies on runoff from cropland to avoid disappearing. But as farmers face water cuts due to drought and an ever drier Colorado River, the Salton Sea stands to lose again.

Its salt-encrusted shores circle about 340 square miles of sea. A silo-full of conspiracy theories features the Salton Sea: The military may have accidentally dropped a real bomb that did not explode.

The 250 or so town residents live in the low desert on the east shore of the Salton Sea, which formed in 1905 when the then-flush Colorado River spilled into a depression, creating a freshwater ...

When David Lo first visited the Salton Sea shore in the spring of 2018, he was struck by the sheer oddness of the place: the beach of barnacle shells and pulverized fish bones; the abandoned dock ...

These surges in pollution typically last one or two days, which may be why state air regulators hadn’t previously considered soil emissions a significant source of pollution near the Salton Sea.