Air pollution affecting communities surrounding California's Salton Sea is being "vastly underestimated", according to new research. Hydrogen sulfide emissions are systemically underreported, the ...

The presence of these emissions in communities surrounding the Salton Sea are "vastly underestimated" by government air-quality monitoring systems, the researchers found.

(For anyone also unfamiliar with the Salton Sea, it was born from an engineering disaster in 1905 when Colorado River water breached irrigation canals and flooded the Salton Sink for two years.

"The Salton Sea itself was accidentally created in 1905 when the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal, flooding the dry Salton Sink and forming the lake that exists today." ...

The long-delayed restoration of the Salton Sea, the large, ultra-briny California lake almost universally described as an “environmental disaster,’’ could be starting to finally get its sea ...

Sink or swim time for Salton Sea? Momentum builds for pricey lake restoration California's biggest lake has languished for decades as increased salinity, a sinking waterline and a foul smell have ...

California's biggest lake has languished for decades as increased salinity, a sinking waterline and a foul smell have robbed it of past glory.

The long-delayed restoration of the Salton Sea, the large, ultra-briny California lake almost universally described as an “environmental disaster,’’ could be starting to finally get its sea legs. But ...

Then, in a wild spring runoff in 1905, the Colorado River blew out a diversion dam, and for the next three years the mighty Colorado drained into the Salton Sink.