I explored the Salton Sea, one of California's biggest mistakes. This massive, super-salty lake sits in the middle of the ...

The Salton Sea feels like a world suspended between life and collapse. Cracked earth, abandoned buildings, and salt-bleached ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Haze hung over the Salton Sea on a recent winter day, while black-necked stilts and kildeer waded in the shallows, ...

Miles past the glamor of Palm Springs and the comfort of well-developed civilization, there is a place that remains off the grid. What used to be a marine training camp called “Camp Dunlap” is now the ...

The Salton Sea was once a tourist destination, a "Palm Springs with water." Now the largest lake in California is an environmental disaster: The water is toxic and the surrounding area abandoned. It ...