How California’s Salton Sea went from vacation destination to toxic nightmare

Grist
By Zoya TeirsteinOct 4, 2022, 10:30 am212 pts
This story is part of the Grist series Parched, an in-depth look at how climate change-fueled drought is reshaping communities, economies, and ecosystems. In the spring of 1905, the Colorado River, bursting with seasonal rain, topped an irrigation canal and flooded the site of a dried lake bed in Southern…

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