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The Beach Boys Played Here. Now It’s a Toxic Dust Bowl.

The Salton Sea once rivaled Yosemite in tourist visits. Today, it’s a toxic environmental disaster. Luis Olmedo of Comite Civico del Valle connects the dots between industrial runoff, migrant farmworkers, and the health crisis brewing at this shrinking desert lake. What’s being done to save it — if anything?
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Clip Season 2 Episode 5 Length 05:13 Premiere: 07/23/25

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Season 2 Episodes

Vanishing Act
S2 E6 Length 55:39 Premiere Date 07/30/25

Dammed If You Do
S2 E5 Length 55:08 Premiere Date 07/23/25

The Honey Trap
S2 E4 Length 55:09 Premiere Date 07/16/25

Dressed to Kill
S2 E3 Length 55:09 Premiere Date 07/09/25

The Enemy of My Enemy
S2 E2 Length 55:13 Premiere Date 07/02/25

Shelf Life
S2 E1 Length 55:07 Premiere Date 06/25/25

Episode 5 Preview
Preview Length 00:30 Premiere Date 07/23/25

Vegas vs. the Desert: Plumbing the Impossible
Clip Length 11:19 Premiere Date 07/23/25

The Beach Boys Played Here. Now It’s a Toxic Dust Bowl.
Clip Length 05:13 Premiere Date 07/23/25

Reviving the River: Hope Returns to the Colorado Delta
Clip Length 04:59 Premiere Date 07/23/25

Tag, You're It: Tracking the Grand Canyon's Toughest Fish
Clip Length 04:35 Premiere Date 07/23/25

The Dam Truth: What Glen Canyon Tells Us About a Drying West
Clip Length 09:00 Premiere Date 07/23/25

Season 2 Preview
Preview Length 00:30 Premiere Date 06/25/25

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