For Utah’s Indigenous peoples, healing water and healing people have always been the same work,” write Forrest S. Cuch, Darren Parry and Max Perry Mueller in an op-ed. “To protect this lake is to ...

Environmental groups released a report criticizing water use tied with Utah Inland Port projects, calling for the Legislature to limit the amount of water those developments can use.

Utah’s Great Salt Lake hit its lowest recorded water-surface elevation in November 2022, capping a decades-long decline that state and federal researchers have linked to a combination of drought and ...

Here’s how the Utah House Majority Caucus is making water infrastructure a top priority during the 2026 Legislative Session.

A new collaborative study, led by University of Utah Professor of atmospheric sciences Kevin Perry, provides policymakers, agency leaders, and the public with the most comprehensive assessment to date ...

Agricultural use remains the biggest consumer in consumption of water that would otherwise make it into the Great Salt Lake, accounting for about 65% of its depletion since 2020. However, a Great Salt ...

There is a unique kind of beauty to the Great Salt Lake. If you’ve ever watched a sunset from Antelope Island, reflecting off that glassy water, you know it’s one of the most striking landscapes on ...

Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. This story is also an excerpt from the Open ...

Salt Lake City, Utah has a unique challenge ahead of it as it looks forward to hosting the 2034 Winter Games: Its namesake ...

Most people can imagine why a shrinking Great Salt Lake would mean unhealthy dust storms for the Wasatch Front, or why refilling the lake through water conservation could reduce dust exposure. Now, ...

GREAT SALT LAKE, Utah - Kevin Perry was standing on the parched lakebed when the wind started to pick up. He squinted across acracked, gray expanse of earth, submerged 16 feet underwater just five ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about ...