Toxic dust from California’s shrinking Salton Sea is harming children’s lung growth – our study tracked the impact in 700 kids
- Written by Jill Johnston, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupation Health, University of California, Irvine; University of Southern California
The Salton Sea is shrinking and releasing toxic dust from its lake bed.Jennifer Davis/iStock/Getty Images PlusSouthern California’s Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake in the 1950s and ’60s.
Today, those resorts are long gone, replaced by a drying and...