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Salton Sea is emitting foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide gas, triggering health concerns
Emissions of hydrogen sulfide raise health concerns in communities near California's largest lake, researchers say.
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As California's toxic Salton Sea shrinks, it's raising health alarms for the surrounding community
Salton City, California — Damien Lopez, age 4, has symptoms that many people who live near Southern ... Lo explained to CBS News. For decades, this dangerous mix sat on the sea floor.
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Can the Salton Sea be saved?
High Country News’ weekly email newsletters ... arid California landscape: the Salton Sea. In the decades that followed, vacationers, water skiers, and speed boat enthusiasts flocked to the ...
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Environmentalists sound the alarm on Salton Sea as oasis is left in the dust
There were dead fish." Nancy del Castillo, who moved to a home near the Salton Sea with her family nine years ago, speaks with ABC News Live. As environmentalists and community activists call for ...
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As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust
Several of the volunteers push the inflatable boat over the salt-encrusted playa ... Cohen has been working on the Salton Sea, and with the marginalized communities that live around it, for roughly 25 ...
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In the dust of the Coachella Valley, residents push for a park along the shrinking Salton Sea
Many of the homes and buildings around the sea have fallen into disrepair. But for the farmworkers who toil in the Coachella and Imperial valleys and still live ... news conference at the Salton ...
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Boating again at Salton Sea: Ramp aims to spur activity
“Today you can launch a boat and three years ago you couldn’t,” said Kelly Claar, Salton Sea Sector Superintendent for the California Department of Parks and Recreation. “We are thrilled ...
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The Salton Sea, an Accident of History, Faces a New Water Crisis
But those cuts will also be bad news for the ... people already live in poverty. “It’s not good for our community,” Ms. Shields said. But faster shrinking of the Salton Sea isn’t good ...
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RivCo Respiratory Illnesses Linked To Farm Runoff Near Salton Sea
For the communities living near California's largest ... Calipatria and Westmorland — communities near the Salton Sea, according to a 2019 report from USC Today. "We already have a vulnerable ...
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The Salton Sea — an area rich with lithium — is a hot spot for child respiratory issues
Windblown dust from the shrinking Salton Sea harms the respiratory health of children living nearby ... are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!
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The Salton Sea -- an area rich with lithium -- is a hot spot for child respiratory issues
Windblown dust from the shrinking Salton Sea harms the respiratory health of children living nearby, triggering asthma, coughing, wheezing and disrupted sleep, USC research shows. The problem is ...