Our current experience with the lithium mining boom is a perfect example. Salton Sea communities will be closest to the environmental impacts of lithium extraction. Yet, we have no guarantees or ...

After decades of failed attempts to preserve California's endlessly troubled 120-year-old Salton Sea, a myriad of new ... water briefly created a tourist boom that lasted into the 1960s, though ...

We'd seen archive footage of boom towns and ghost towns that gave both a snapshot of the past and a warning shot for the future. The only thing we learnt for sure was that the Salton Sea is a ...