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As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust

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Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. If the emissions aren’t from the shoreline, no amount of straw bales is going to improve the air quality,” says John Gillies, an atmospheric physicist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. 1 commodity for the last 64 years.