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# Salton Sea dust alters lung microbes in mice, UCR finds
- URL: https://www.raincrossgazette.com/noteworthy/salton-sea-dust-alters-lung-microbes-in-mice-ucr-finds/
- Published: 2025-10-22T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-22T13:47:30.000Z
- Author: Gazette Staff
- Tags: Education, #brief, #herald-noteworthy:68f6a1dc583b0a000168ca71:2

UC Riverside researchers discovered that [inhaling Salton Sea dust rapidly alters lung microbiomes](https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/10/21/dusty-air-rewriting-your-lung-microbiome?ref=raincrossgazette.com) in healthy mice, triggering up to 60% immune cell inflammation and marking the first observed environmental—not disease—cause of such changes.