Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A California judge has denied environmentalists' claims that the Hells Kitchen lithium extraction project approved by Imperial ...

The largest lake in California, the Imperial Valley’s Salton Sea, was once home to booming farming and fishing communities, not to mention a glittering tourist oasis in the desert that drew everyone ...

There is something majestic about the Salton Sea, one of the world's largest inland seas and lowest spots on earth at -227 below sea level. The people who live there know its majesty on a daily basis.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Critics of a proposed lithium mine near the Salton Sea entered round two of their fight to force stricter ...

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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Residents around the Salton Sea have long complained of respiratory ailments from particulate pollution that wafts ...

LOS ANGELES – Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of dry, sunbaked lake bed as California officials filled a complex of shallow ponds near the south shore of the Salton Sea in an ...

Scientists say a vast trove of battery metal lies beneath a shrinking inland lake in California, a discovery they value at roughly 540 billion dollars and describe as nothing short of transformative ...

A California judge has denied environmentalists' claims that the Hells Kitchen lithium extraction project approved by Imperial County officials was not adequately studied for water supply or air ...