New research suggests a hidden body of pressurized freshwater may lie beneath the Great Salt Lake’s playa, trapped below a ...

Alfred University Assistant Professor of Geology Kristian Olson met undergraduate Piper Moore in his Structural Geology class in 2024. Piper was an art student in her third year at Alfred. She had an ...

At the 5th annual “Rally to Save Our Great Salt Lake,” hundreds of Utahns gathered in Salt Lake City to celebrate water ...

The Great Salt Lake is an extraordinary natural phenomenon, the "largest salt-water lake in the western hemisphere." "A remnant of the massive ancient Lake Bonneville, the lake is now landlocked and ...

The view of Great Salt Lake's North Arm from Gunnison Island, which has long served as a nesting ground for pelicans. Over the past 8,000 years, Utah’s Great Salt Lake has been sensitive to changes in ...

Dust from the Great Salt Lake is reaching the Wasatch Front. New studies and state plans press for more monitoring.

Utah’s Great Salt Lake is a place of extremes, and its ecosystem is evidence that life can thrive under some of Earth’s most hostile conditions. Scientists say it may hold clues for life on other ...

The Great Salt Lake is hovering just above its record-low 2022 elevation, when it began to slide toward ecological collapse. There is little relief in sight. A hot, dry summer has left Utah facing ...

WOODS CROSS, Utah — Utah's Department of Natural Resources is utilizing LiDAR technology to help map the Great Salt Lake. "It is a topo-bathymetric LiDAR sensor that operates by basically recording ...