A lithium gold rush is erupting beneath California's Salton Sea, where a $540 billion discovery could supercharge U.S. battery independence.

Over the decades, change has been slow. It would take substantial, sustained funding to address the dire economic, health and ...

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

After decades of failed attempts to preserve California's endlessly troubled 120-year-old Salton Sea ... to build a domestic lithium industry at home while also expanding clean, flexible ...

The Salton Sea, long described as an ecological disaster, could certainly use that kind of stability at the moment. And now, there’s a California-led conservancy coming to do just that — or ...

State officials are weighing listing the tiny birds as an endangered species, a decision that could have big implications for the farming and renewable energy-focused county.

The Salton Sea, California's largest lake, has suffered from decades of environmental degradation, impacting the health of nearby residents and the local ecosystem. Recent funding allocations ...

I grew up in the Salton Sea region in a mobile home community of farmworkers ... with the larger metropolitan regions assigned to us. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Alianza Coachella Valley ...