{"id":921835,"date":"2026-07-22T23:12:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/its-a-really-poor-quality-of-life-once-a-miracle-in-the-desert-californias-salton-sea-now-spreads-toxic-dust-on-vulnerable-communities\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:12:05","slug":"its-a-really-poor-quality-of-life-once-a-miracle-in-the-desert-californias-salton-sea-now-spreads-toxic-dust-on-vulnerable-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/its-a-really-poor-quality-of-life-once-a-miracle-in-the-desert-californias-salton-sea-now-spreads-toxic-dust-on-vulnerable-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s a really poor quality of life&#8217;: Once a &#8216;miracle in the desert,&#8217; California&#8217;s Salton Sea now spreads toxic dust on vulnerable communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Medical anthropologist Ann Cheney speaks to Live Science writer Sascha Pare about the heavy toll toxic dust from California&#8217;s largest inland lake takes on marginalized communities&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/its-a-really-poor-quality-of-life-once-a-miracle-in-the-desert-californias-salton-sea-now-spreads-toxic-dust-on-vulnerable-communities\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Clora Menjivar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Medical anthropologist Ann Cheney speaks to Live Science writer Sascha Pare about the heavy toll toxic dust from California&#8217;s largest inland lake takes on marginalized communities&#8230;Read MoreClora Menjivar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":921836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23969,847,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-quality","category-really","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}