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The Salton Sea: Life and death in an inland ocean

Season 10 Episode 1005 | 26m 46s

The Salton Sink has been home to the largest body of water in California for more than a thousand years. Three hundred years ago, it was Lake Cahuilla, a freshwater lake. Changing geology and extensive industrial agriculture have resulted in a very salty and polluted sea. Once a booming tourist mecca, drought, agriculture, and failed development have produced a nearly dead body of water.

Aired: 03/31/23 | Expires: 03/31/26
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
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Protecting whales and cultivating the friendship between people and the gentle giants.
Understanding Columbus and the influence and destruction heaped on the Americas.
Exploring Huelva, its surroundings and its wealth of cultural and historical influences.
Exploring the resistance and reception of Europeans to the Americas.
Explore how southwestern U.S. native peoples established the Colorado Plateau.
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