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https://www.europesays.com/people/211412/ California politicians promised white gold in ‘Lithium Valley’. But are those dreams fading? | News #AppellateCourt #aquifer #california #EnvironmentalIssues #GavinNewsom #hell #ImperialCounty #lithium #LithiumValley #mineral #SaltonSea #Water

I spent the first six months of this year earning a Permaculture Design Certificate through Oregon State University. It changed how I read land, water, climate, and my own place inside all three.

I used it to turn my property in Bombay Beach, on the Salton Sea, into a working lab for saline agroforestry and regenerative design. The goal: show that even the most hostile landscapes can become productive, resilient, alive.

Stay tuned.

#Permaculture #RegenerativeDesign #SaltonSea

What To Watch On YouTube Right Now – Part 134

Welcome back my readers, YouTube viewers and all others who followed this series of articles focused on YouTube videos worth watching.

Have you been searching for something fun or interesting to watch on YouTube? Do you feel bored right now and you crave for something to see on the world’s most popular online video destination?

I recommend you check out the following videos I found.

#1 Resident Evil: Apocalypse Reviews, Retrospective And Reaction Videos – After watching the 2002 live-action Resident Evil movie, I left the cinema feeling unsatisfied as it did not have much related to the popular video game series. That film succeeded enough to justify the production of the sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and the first reveal of Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine (based on her appearance in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis) caught my attention. The reveal of Raccoon City getting hit by the zombie apocalypse and the casting of Oded Fehr as Carlos Oliviera (another RE3 character) interested me. In September 2004, I saw Resident Evil: Apocalypse on opening day in the local cinema and I was entertained for the most part. The Milla Jovovich-led film was indeed flawed, but it was an enjoyable improvement over its 2002 predecessor. How Resident Evil: Apocalypse fares with the YouTubers is something you must see.

https://youtu.be/CzSD8eJ7Mlc?si=lrPmw9pub5IA5cNO

https://youtu.be/OeHvcblDzes?si=ayO3PrfqT9B-zKRg

https://youtu.be/6EKCWfSUees?si=46qrEIRQNq6MDtCB

https://youtu.be/p2y1vteQKwI?si=UOcK6JzqPwC8rEy0

https://youtu.be/IXrl4wBx9ps?si=1YkCe2QmgR1DiZ94

https://youtu.be/wtfs2QuEi2M?si=3A2onq0KqA6tq7R9

https://youtu.be/xLlA73QXU5s?si=ml97HL9LM8E_Efi7

#2 The Planned California City That Failed – Have you ever heard of Salton City? It was a planned city in the state of California located along the Salton Sea. It was designed as a resort community capable of supporting forty thousand residents, and it was to have the complete systems of water, roads, sewer and energy. Salton City is a ghost town and the in-depth YouTube video I found will help you realize its history and why development failed.

https://youtu.be/42kzy9PxHXc?si=86ytUBsr-XXcNx5P

#3 Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire Game Revisited – Back in the mid-1990s, George Lucas’ entertainment group launched the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire multi-media project which told what happened between the movies The Empire Strike Back and Return of the Jedi. The said project was huge even though there was no live action Star Wars movie involved. A Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire novel was released which became the foundation of a comic book adaptation (read my retro reviews here and here), a video game, toys, action figures and merchandise. The video game of Shadows of the Empire was a joint project between LucasArts and Nintendo and its release on Nintendo 64 drew a lot of attention back then. The game itself made gamers – both Star Wars fans and casual gamers – want to get an N64 to play the game. I recently found two in-depth retrospective videos about Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire on N64 and I encourage you all to watch them.

https://youtu.be/mznc8dhijTo?si=OQNHly8LIU-ncB5b

https://youtu.be/kNPAThuhtks?si=7pFdpdhV0-x71kQS

#4 The Embarrassing Woke NDP Of Canada – Have you ever heard about the New Democratic Party? Referred to as NDP for short, New Democratic Party is a very leftist and woke political party in Canada and it had a really bad result in the 2025 federal election. Recently, the NDP had its leadership election and what happened in late March saw a series of awkward and embarrassing moments during their big event. In the videos below, you will see why political correctness, identity politics and wokeness are bad to have, and they made the internal processes of the NDP hard to pull off. In fact, diversity and inclusion zealotry have caused divisions within the NDP’s convention. What happened was funny to watch and it was not a comedy at all.

https://youtu.be/0RpyFyX4xFg?si=DmABkgVHDWT-Kftj

https://youtu.be/kuMVLWnwRrk?si=eCf2Vrack90tkjh-

#5 Elderly Japanese Women And Their Beloved Restaurants – In Japan, many Japanese people live really long lives. Among them are elderly people who are active and managed to make an impact on others. That said, there are two elderly Japanese women who excelled in cooking meals and managing restaurants, and what they offer will impress you. I urge you all to watch the Nippon TV feature below.

https://youtu.be/oOzG-3LfLUE?si=f-oIvaDcxY3IF-X3

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Southwest High School community health worker students explore Salton Sea environmental restoration | News https://www.byteseu.com/1946836/ #AirPollution #California #DeterminantsOfHealth #EarthSciences #EDUCATION #EmissionStandard #environment #EnvironmentalEducation #EnvironmentalHealth #EnvironmentalIssues #EnvironmentalJustice #Health #HumanImpactOnTheEnvironment #ImpactsOfHumanActivities #ImperialCounty #learning #Literacy #NaturalEnvironment #Pollution #SaltonSea

Southwest High School community health worker students explore Salton Sea environmental restoration | News

EL CENTRO — Career Te…
#Environment #airpollution #California #determinantsofhealth #EarthSciences #education #emissionstandard #environmentaleducation #environmentalhealth #EnvironmentalIssues #environmentaljustice #health #humanimpactontheenvironment #impactsofhumanactivities #ImperialCounty #learning #literacy #naturalenvironment #pollution #SaltonSea
https://www.europesays.com/2928229/

https://www.europesays.com/2928229/ Southwest High School community health worker students explore Salton Sea environmental restoration | News #AirPollution #California #DeterminantsOfHealth #EarthSciences #education #EmissionStandard #Environment #EnvironmentalEducation #EnvironmentalHealth #EnvironmentalIssues #EnvironmentalJustice #health #HumanImpactOnTheEnvironment #ImpactsOfHumanActivities #ImperialCounty #learning #literacy #NaturalEnvironment #pollution #SaltonSea

https://www.europesays.com/people/21348/ California Launches Salton Sea Conservancy to Speed Restoration Efforts #CaliforniaEnvironmentalPolicy #ClimateAction #DustSuppression #GavinNewsom #HabitatRestoration #SaltonSea #SaltonSeaConservancy

@ianjames Promotingto #California #SaltonSea #Healthcare

Okay, but the #SaltonSea is already gone and it is a toxic hellhole and it did produce some new species of weird shit and microbes I think, right?

#Monsterdon #TheMonsterThatChangedTheWorld1957 #MonsterMiru

Contributor: For water and mining policy near Salton Sea, keep in mind local children’s health

Southern California’s Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing o…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Airpollution #asthma #child #ColoradoRiver #Health #highrate #imperialvalley #lake #lakebed #lungfunction #respiratoryhealthsymptom #saltonsea #Science #study #water #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/565725/

I was warned of the smell of dead fish, yet I show up and it's...fine? Oh, I'm sure the Salton Sea has its nasty side, but there's no place else quite like these "Desert Shores", as I call this shot: captured on my first-ever night I saw the place last year.

#art #photography #dusk #twilight #landscape #AmericanWest #California #desert #SaltonSea #beach #lake

"Missing Link,“ is a tall, vertical aquarium tube we installed on the beach in Bombay Beach, at the shore of the Salton Sea in Southern California. It is filled with fresh, clean water distilled from the Salton Sea.

It is a testimony to the drying lake and a summoning of what is needed to revive it. It invites the public to reflect on what we value and how easily it is lost.

#bombaybeach #saltonsea #bombaybeachbiennale #landrushproject

County releases draft Lithium Valley Specific Plan and Draft Program Environmental Impact Report | News https://www.byteseu.com/1680705/ #California #CaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityAct #CircularEconomy #economy #environment #EnvironmentalImpactAssessment #EnvironmentalSocialScience #GeothermalEnergy #ImperialCounty #INFRASTRUCTURE #Lithium #LithiumValley #mining #NaturalEnvironment #nature #RenewableEnergy #SaltonSea

“Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why”*…

Ash Sanders visits Bombay Beach, a half-ruined former vacation town on the edge of the Salton Sea where absurdist philosophers, artists, and everyday townsfolk have undertaken a postapocalyptic experiment in radical living…

It is easy to miss California’s biggest environmental disaster. Driving north on Highway 111, you wouldn’t expect to find an inland sea. If it’s summer, the thermometer in your car could read 115 degrees. But amid the shimmering heat, there are signs of water. All around you, rows of broccoli, lettuce, and alfalfa stretch in every direction. In the fields, farmworkers bend and straighten. The air is sharp with cow dung. A pall of dust hangs over everything.

You are sixty miles north of the Mexican border at Calexico. If you keep going, the landscape will transition from fields to palm trees. You’re driving out of poverty and into money, away from one of the poorest counties in California and toward towns with golf courses and named for oases. Palm Springs. Rancho Mirage.

The left turn is easy to miss, the brown sign a seeming anachronism. BOMBAY BEACH. Surely there is no town here, you think, let alone a beach. But if you continue, you’ll see hints of life. There are saplings on the side of the road—not much to look at yet but there all the same. In the distance, a squat building hangs on under the punishing sun. THE SKI INN, it says on the ’70s-era marquee. LOWEST BAR IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. Indeed, you are 223 feet below sea level here, in a depression known as the Salton Sink.

For now, drive past the bar and look up. In front of you is a giant black-and-white billboard. Four white women in vintage swimsuits smile as they water-ski side by side. Behind them, a sea stretches into vastness. LAST STOP FOR THE BOMBAY BEACH RESORT, the sign says. The vibe is nostalgic, carefree. But where is the water? You turn around and around. On every side of you, dust. Above you, the flat, hard sky. That’s when you see the other billboard. This one’s more minimalist. Just a few palm trees and some lettering. BOMBAY BEACH, it reads. THE LAST RESORT! You aren’t sure if it’s a welcome or a warning.

You feel as if you’ve stepped back in time, into a place people have forgotten. The town isn’t large—a little over a half-mile square, its dirt roads named with numbers and letters. But it’s big enough to be a lot of things at once. On some streets, you could be forgiven for thinking no one lived here. Old trailer homes sigh on their blocks, their screen doors rusted and hanging. A sign announcing BOMBAY BEACH ESTATES sits next to a huddle of concrete buildings, their doors and windows gone, their abundant graffiti tending toward alien iconography. The scene reads like a developer’s erstwhile dream, and a homeowners association’s worst nightmare.

But the sense of ruin is not uniform. Here and there, the feeling of absence is replaced by a strange sort of presence. On one street, someone has lined up a series of junked vintage cars to face a movie screen. The cars are empty. The vibe: rapture at the drive-in. Down the road, old TVs have been stacked side by side, their screens painted with abstract shapes. On the roof of a nearby house, there sits, inexplicably, a giant sculpted egg. The scene puts you in mind of Whitman. Does it contradict itself? Very well, then: It contradicts itself. The town contains multitudes…

Sanders elaborates, via the tale of her visit to the Bombay Beach Biennale and her accounts of the remarkable people she met and things she saw there, concluding…

… We saw the tollbooth on our way out of town. It was wooden, and the boom gate was the skeleton of a fish—the unofficial mascot of Bombay. There was a sign hanging in the window. STOP, it said. PAY TOLL FOR RE-ENTRY TO THE REAL WORLD. Someone had crossed out REAL and written NIGHTMARE. We stopped and gave a donation to a bored-looking teen, who handed us our reentry pass. “This ticket buys your return to everything you were running from” was printed on it.

As we drove past the Ski Inn, I saw the billboard again. BOMBAY BEACH. THE LAST RESORT! As in: our last chance. As in: our final effort.

Perhaps it was because of all the talking with Tao and Wanda and Mark, but I found myself in a philosophical frame of mind. I thought of Sean Guerrero’s driftwood ship, the Tetanus Tatanka, made of various pieces of the past. That got me thinking of the ship of Theseus. In Greek mythology, it’s said that the people of Athens honored the memory of one of their greatest heroes by preserving his ship for many years. When one board rotted, they replaced it; when the mast listed, they replaced that. The ship hangs on in our collective memory less as an object and more as a philosophical conundrum. If the ship is always changing—always being changed—is it still the same ship?

Suddenly I felt a chill amid the heat. The landscape swerved, became surreal, uncanny. I closed my eyes, and the sea came up to my ankles. I opened them and the sea retreated again. All at once I entered a perpetual present. It is 2025, and there are cormorant nests made of bird bones out on Mullet Island; it is 1965 and the Beach Boys water-ski on a glimmering sea. It is five million years ago and the Colorado River has just gotten going; it is two million years later, and it is pushing over its berm, flooding the Salton Sink. It is hundreds of years ago and the fires of the Cahuilla people dot the edge of a giant lake; it is the turn of the nineteenth century and the first white farmer is planting his stick on the riverbank, saying, “Mine; this water is mine.” There are buffalo back east somewhere, their bodies massed and vital on the plains. Then the settlers kill the buffalo and there are none left. The world, as Irondad suggested, is always ending and always beginning, and we are always trapped and always about to break free.

I knew at once that this dream was not supposed to let anyone off the hook—it was not saying that things would be fine, or that we were not responsible for what we’d done or must do. It was more of a desert vision, a mirage induced by heat that made regular objects appear different. The ship of Theseus has long posed a question of persistent identity, of how and when a thing stops being what it once was. But leaving Bombay, I wondered if it could also be a story about how long it takes something to become something else—a new species or a new kind of society. After how many revisions and mistakes, how many repetitions or re-creations of the past? Convivium is a gathering, but it is also a process. Slowly, and in isolation, a group of desert people fumbles its way into a new body, and a new body politic.

“The Last Resort” (or, if impeded, here) from @thebeliever.net.

For those unable (or just unlikely) to make it to the Salton Sea: “Make the Internet Weird Again,” from Zach Frechette.

* Hunter S. Thompson (who also– and more famously– observed that “when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro”)

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As we dance with destiny, we might spare a thought for Eugène Dubois; he died on this date in 1940. A paleoanthropologist and geologist, he was the first person ever deliberately to search for fossils of human ancestors. He is best remembered for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or “Java Man.” Estimated to be between 700,000 and 1,490,000 years old, it was, at the time of its discovery, the oldest hominid fossil ever found, and it remains the type specimen for Homo erectus… an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene.

source

#anthropology #Biennale #BombayBeach #BombayBeachBiennale #culture #EugèneDubois #EugeneDubois #history #hominid #homoErectus #JavaMan #paleoanthropology #philosophy #Pleistocene #politics #SaltonSea #Science #society #Technology

🫁 Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-toxic-salton-sea-triggers-lung.html

#health #california #saltonsea #microbiome #lungs #airpollution #airquality

🚨🦠 Breaking News: In an unprecedented discovery, the Salton Sea dust has gained sentience and is now moonlighting as a bouncer, blocking poorly coded research requests at the door. 🤖💨 Meanwhile, your lungs are hosting a party for bacteria - invitation courtesy of the Great Dusty Bouncer of 2023. 🎉👾
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-toxic-salton-sea-triggers-lung.html #BreakingNews #SentientDust #SaltonSea #TechHumor #HealthConcerns #HackerNews #ngated

Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-toxic-salton-sea-triggers-lung.html

#HackerNews #ToxicDust #LungHealth #Microbiome #SaltonSea #EnvironmentalScience

Get ready for the end
le bon halloween

#photos #photomontage #saltonsea #bombaybeach #totalstrangers

"So often, the Salton Sea is referred to only as a disaster. But perhaps there was some value to the devastation. Maybe living next to a dying sea made it harder to live in denial."

Ash Sanders for The Believer: https://www.thebeliever.net/the-last-resort/

#Longreads #SaltonSea #BombayBeach #California #Desert #Ruins #ClimateCrisis #Water #AmericanWest

New L.A. novels to read and writer hangouts to explore in SoCal

Dying to Know L.A. literary adventure If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn…
#NewsBeep #News #Books #book #CA #Canada #Entertainment #gabe #Hollywood #hollywoodcostumedesigner #jada #julia #l.a.novel #L.A. #LosAngelesTimes #mother #Mystery #novel #relationship #saltonsea #Water
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/116093/

New L.A. novels to read and writer hangouts to explore in SoCal

Dying to Know L.A. literary adventure If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Books #Book #Entertainment #gabe #hollywood #hollywoodcostumedesigner #jada #julia #l.a. #l.a.novel #LosAngelesTimes #mother #Mystery #novel #relationship #saltonsea #water
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/116015/

Some video I shot of the Salton Sea. A place can be hauntingly beautiful, and simultaneously an environment hellscape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxbSkpkxK40

#drone #saltonsea #california #nature #environment

Hypereutrophication, Hydrogen Sulfide, And Environmental Injustices - Mechanisms And Knowledge Gaps At The Salton Sea
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GH001327
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[I have long been fascinated by this ‘accidental waterbody’, from its creation all the way through the extreme pollution issues as it evaporates – and the lithium under it – a heck of a history, culturally, demographically, hydrologically, contaminants, public health, agriculturally and so much more…]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #Hypereutrophication #HydrogenSulfide, #EnvironmentalInjustice #SaltonSea #California #publichealth #water #hydrology #sea #waterbody #accident #fertiliser #fertilizer #dust #dustborne #lake #degradation #health #community #rural #Latinx #Hispanic #farmworkers #children #TorresMartinezDesert #Cahuilla #Indian #FirstNation #evaporation #H2S #research #waterquality #waterresources #agriculture #environment #airquality #wind #airborne #spatialanalysis #monitoring #spatiotemporal #sensor #emissions #nutrients #Coachella #ImperialValley #sediment

A toxic gas is poisoning communities near the Salton Sea—and most of it goes unmeasured. #EnvironmentalJustice #SaltonSea #AirQualityCrisis

https://geekoo.news/salton-sea-study-reveals-toxic-air-threat-far-worse-than-reported/

Air-quality monitoring underestimates toxic emissions to Salton Sea communities, study finds https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250602154610.htm

Air-quality monitoring underestimates toxic emissions to Salton Sea communities, study finds https://phys.org/news/2025-06-air-quality-underestimates-toxic-emissions.html

#SaltonSea #environment #AirQuality #emissions

California turns on water to create new wetlands on the shore of the shrinking Salton Sea
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-05-24/salton-sea-wetlands-habitat-project
#SaltonSea #SoCalWater #Environment

Another #Coachella Valley map from the Retrofuture series…
The town of Coachella is to the northwest, this is the 1:250000 USGS quad of the Salton Sea, 1950, with 66m sea level rise. Also, check out Joshua Tree National Monument in the upper left.

More #Retrofuture maps…https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/retrofuture-gallery/

#climateChange #maps #cartography #Indio #ImperialValley #SanAndreasFault #CoachellaValley #SaltonSea #SeaOfCortez #SeaLevelRise #JoshuaTreeNP #WorldBuilding #Futurism #outsiderArt

When the ice caps melt, the #Coachella Valley becomes the north end of the Sea of Cortez.

From the Drowned Cities series. You can see more…https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/sea-level-rise-gallery/

#climateChange #maps #cartography #Indio #PalmSprings #PalmDesert #BermudaDunes #CoachellaValley #SaltonSea #SeaOfCortez #SeaLevelRise #WorldBuilding #Futurism #outsiderArt

Installation at East Jesus, a collection at the off-grid artist commune of Slab City, CA near the Salton Sea.

#Television #SaltonSea #SlabCity #California #Art #Bohemian #ModernArt #ContemporaryArt #Consumerism #Media #Entertainment

Salton Sea, an area rich with lithium, is a hot spot for child respiratory issues #SaltonSea #environment #health #PublicHealth #lithium https://phys.org/news/2024-10-salton-sea-area-rich-lithium.html

Arkansas May Have Vast Lithium Reserves, Researchers Say - Federal and state researchers said there might be five million to 19 million tons of lith... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/business/energy-environment/arkansas-lithium-ev-batteries.html #unitedstatesgeologicalsurvey #electricandhybridvehicles #oil(petroleum)andgasoline #geothermalpower #lithium(metal) #minesandmining #exxonmobilcorp #bidenjosephrjr #reservoirs #batteries #saltonsea #research #arkansas

Enhancement of OVA-induced murine lung eosinophilia by co-exposure to contamination levels of #LPS in Asian sand #dust and heated dust

Yahao Ren, et al.
Published: 2014 Jun 9

"A previous study has shown that the aggravation of Asian sand dust (ASD) on ovalbumin (OVA)-induced lung eosinphilia was more severe in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-rich ASD than in SiO2-rich ASD. Therefore, the effects of different LPS contamination levels in ASD on the aggravation of OVA-induced lung eosinophilia were investigated in the present study.

Conclusions:

"This study demonstrates that LPS contamination in ASD aggravates allergic lung inflammation in the presence of OVA and H-ASD. The aggravation of the allergic lung inflammation by LPS may be caused through the TLR4-dependent signaling pathway. The results of the current study indicate that the exposure to ASD with LPS may be a significant risk factor for adult and child #asthma. The hazardous effects of #MineralDust and #biogenic agents on human respiratory disease are an increasing public concern. Atmospheric exposure to #bacteria, fungi and virus, and silica-carrying particulate matters may influence human respiratory health on a world-wide scale."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058696/

#DryingLakes #AgriculturalPollution
#Fertilizers #Phosphorus
#SaltonSea #Wildlife #HumanHealth #MonoLake #AralSea #GreatSaltLake #SaltonSea #LungDisease

At the #Salton Sea, Uncovering the Culprit of #LungDisease

Researchers may have found a cause for #asthma-like symptoms in the region. The discovery could have #global implications.

"The scientists are eager to see if the mice demonstrate a similar disease profile with Great Salt Lake dust. If they do, according to Yisrael, it could potentially have global implications. She points to areas like the #AralSea, on the border of #Kazakhstan and #Uzbekistan, as well as lake systems closer to home, like #MonoLake, in central California. 'All of these areas globally are drying up, and around these areas are communities which complain of severe asthma-like symptoms'"

By Fletcher Reveley
08.19.2024

"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 far from the water’s edge; the unremitting smell of decay. It was like a scene from a science fiction movie, recalled the 66-year-old biomedical researcher from University of California, Riverside, familiar yet “just off of normal.”

But it was also pleasant, in a way. The sun glistened off the placid surface of the water, the Chocolate Mountains rose in the distance. At first, he said, 'all those odd parts don’t hit you in terms of potential, like ‘Oh my gosh this is a toxic, nasty sort of thing.' But for him that’s changed, he added, 'having learned more about what’s going on.'

"The Salton Sea is a 316-square mile, shallow glaze of water in #SouthernCalifornia that has been receding in recent years. Scientists believe the #ToxicDust kicked up from the exposed lakebed is contributing to respiratory disease in the region.

"Now, after nearly a decade of research, Lo recommends that anyone visiting the lake wear an #N95 mask. Something in the environment — in the water, the land, the air, or all three — appears to be making people in the region sick with a respiratory disease that presents like asthma. Children have been especially impacted; in some areas more than a quarter of kids have been diagnosed with asthma, more than four times the national childhood #asthma rate. Even more children, whether they have been diagnosed or not, display asthma-like symptoms — more than a third of kids in certain areas. And although residents of the area have long believed the Salton Sea to be toxic, Lo and other researchers at UC Riverside are only now beginning to zero in on a culprit. And it’s one that nobody expected."

[...]

"For Lo and the other researchers, however, the results were remarkable for a different reason — the geographic distribution of the asthma symptoms seemed to map closely onto the geographic distribution of the #LPS. The southern end of the lake was also the main entry point for #AgriculturalRunoff, which is laced with nutrients and feeds explosive biological activity. 'All these things are coming together,' said Lo. “The nutrients driving the bacterial growth, driving the toxin getting into the dust, driving the symptoms.' Lo recalled that at one meeting this year of the Salton Sea Task Force, a multidisciplinary group of UC Riverside scientists that studies the Salton Sea, the findings of the various threads of research began to converge: 'That was the meeting where everybody was, you know their jaws were dropping, like ‘Oh my gosh, it’s all fitting into place.’'"

[...]

"Near the end of May this year, Lo hosted a forum at UC Riverside on the health effects of dust and other particles that can be suspended in air. Many of the presenters were graduate students or faculty from various labs at UC Riverside that study the Salton Sea, but one of the keynote speakers, Molly Blakowski, had flown in from a different state entirely. Blakowski studies the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, and her invitation to the event reflected a growing concern among the UC Riverside investigators: What if this toxic LPS is not unique to the Salton Sea?

"In a recent interview with Undark, Blakowski drew parallels between the Salton Sea and the #GreatSaltLake — both are #hypersaline, terminal lakes that are rapidly shrinking; both contain areas where #nutrients from #agricultural activity enter and impact the #microbiome. Another similarity, she said, is that there are major knowledge gaps regarding the lake and its impact on human health." [NOT JUST HUMAN HEALTH!!!]

https://undark.org/2024/08/19/salton-sea-uncovering-lung-disease/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

#AgriculturalPollution #Fertilizers #Phosphorus #SaltonSea #NonAllergicAsthma #Wildlife #HumanHealth

A drying Salton Sea: Research finds higher particulate pollution after water diverted to San Diego #SaltonSea #sea #water #SanDiego #environment #pollution https://phys.org/news/2024-05-drying-salton-sea-higher-particulate.html

Visited Slab City and Salton Sea yesterday, the first stops on our little GTA sightseeing tour. #MeerMittwoch SlabCity #SaltonSea #California #GamingTourism

Our man Justin loves Devir Games, so it was a no-brainer to review their newest “medium box” design, Salton Sea!
https://www.meeplemountain.com/reviews/salton-sea/

#BoardGames #SaltonSea #InlandSea #Salty
4/5 ★

From the archives. Salton Sea, CA, USA. February 2018.

#Photography #NewTopographics #SaltonSea

Looks like I might never get to see the #SaltonSea after all... Industry must destroy everything.

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/lithium-valley

@drguidoknapp
Ein anderes "schönes" Beispiel menschlicher Hybris: Durch einen Dammbruch (der 2 Jahre lang nicht eingedämmt werden konnte) entstand in #Kalifornien ab 1905 der #SaltonSea . Jahrezehntelang wurden danach Abwässer aus der Landwirtschaft eingeleitet. Nun trocknet der See wg. der anhaltenden Dürre und der Übernutzung natürlicher Wasserquellen aus. Bei Wind werden abgelagerte Giftstoffe (Nitrat, Phosphate, Arsen) weiträumig verteilt.

14min bis 04.04. via #arte https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/108293-003-A/salton-sea-eine-fata-morgana-des-kalifornischen-traums/