We were given a behind-the-scenes look at the daily tasks assigned to the aquarists of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell ...

In 1905, a breach in the Alamo Canal caused massive flooding that created California’s Salton Sea, submerging towns and ...

Have you ever heard of a nudibranch? They're colorful mollusks with no shells and you can see them at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum.

The Salton Sea lies about 242 feet below sea level in the Salton Trough, which over thousands of years has cycled between filling with Colorado River water and drying out.

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

The Beach Boys performed there, and stars including Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz vacationed there, according to Linda Beal, a volunteer docent at the closed Salton Sea History Museum.

The Beach Boys performed there, and stars including Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz vacationed there, according to Linda Beal, a volunteer docent at the closed Salton Sea History Museum.

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 ...

The improbable lake known as the Salton Sea was created in 1905 when spring flooding on the Colorado River breached into an irrigation canal. With no outflow, it captured decades of agricultural ...

The Salton Sea is now mostly home to radical artistry and creativity by people who take the remains of the past and make it a living museum of human ingenuity, subversive art, and sheer silliness.

In the early 1900s there was no body of water called the Salton Sea. This barren wasteland was instead known as the Salton Sink. It was only through a series of errors and natural water flow that the ...