A Great Salt Lake Strike Team report released earlier this year found human and natural water consumption caused 73% of the lake’s current dire state, while climate change and natural variation ...

This map shows every country that had a visitor who signed the Great Salt Lake State Park visitor log in 2024. (Photo: Great Salt Lake State Park) People from six of the world's seven continents ...

Great Salt Lake dust isn’t being measured accurately. ... She described the Tellus network, which Salt Lake County makes easy to use through a map, as “low-cost.” ...

This is bad news for Utah, as not only does the Great Salt Lake provide water for 85 percent of the state's agriculture, but as it dries out and its water levels recede, the lakebed is whipped up ...

Utah's Great Salt Lake. Footen, who works for a company called Earthviews that creates maps of aquatic and terrestrial environments, noticed how much conditions have worsened. "So 30 years ago, we ...

The only permanent solution to addressing the budding public health crisis caused by Great Salt Lake dust events is reducing human water consumption in the watershed and maintaining the lake at a ...

The Great Salt Lake in Utah is the largest body of water in the western hemisphere without an outlet to the sea. Its levels fluctuate naturally, but scientists say the record-low water levels the ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake is the largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere. Since the 1980s, the lake has shrunk by two-thirds, and is projected to disappear entirely in the next five years. If ...

The shrinking Great Salt Lake presents an economic (more than $2 billion a year, the report noted), ecological and public health crisis. It dropped to its lowest levels in 2022 attributed to ...

"Here at Great Salt Lake and Mono Lake, you have, you know, 99% of the North American population of eared grebes that use these two lakes," said Marcelle Shoop with the Audubon Society. Mono is ...

The Great Salt Lake, once the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere, sticks out on maps of the United States as a large spot of blue in the West ...