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California’s Salton Sea Dust Is So Toxic That It Poses a Huge Threat to Your Lungs in Just a Week
During the study, researchers exposed healthy mice to dust from the Salton Sea and observed significant changes.
9:36 a.m. Aug. 18, 2025: An earlier version of this story credited a 2023 health study in the Imperial Valley to UC Riverside. In fact, the study was carried out by the Department of Preventive ...
Although best known for his 1993 role as Doc Holliday in Tombstone, Val Kilmer played many roles throughout his life. Nine years after portraying one of the Wild West’s most fearsome gunslingers, the ...
Putrid, potentially harmful levels of hydrogen sulfide blow off the fast-drying Salton Sea far more often than what is recorded by regional air regulators, according to new research. The gap is likely ...
Dust from California's drying Salton Sea doesn't just smell bad. Scientists from UC Riverside found that breathing the dust ...
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 ...
In an aerial view, steam rises from fumaroles, or steam vents, situated between two of the five Salton Buttes lava dome volcanoes that line the southeastern edge of the Salton Sea and are heated by ...
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