This process, called 'spillover,' makes the lake look like it has a giant hole in it ... an atmospheric river dumped torrential rain over California, triggering widespread landslides, 'Biblical ...

After decades of trial and error, a new plan is taking shape around the Salton Sea, California’s largest — and endlessly troubled — lake. The accidental inland sea, some 35 miles long ...

environmentalists and a Bureau of Reclamation partnership are all now flowing together to help California’s quickly receding lake, with a state-run conservancy helping to oversee it all.