The Great Salt Lake may still be the largest inland salt lake in North America. However, it is shrinking so fast that the ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake, once a shimmering inland sea almost as large as Delaware, is shrinking at a staggering pace. Where ...

Three years ago, when the Great Salt Lake was at its lowest levels, Utah lawmakers were alarmed enough to try what may be impossible: save the lake from drying up.

Beneath the drying lakebed of Great Salt Lake lies a toxic reservoir of heavy metals – arsenic, lead, mercury, and more – poised to become airborne, endangering the millions of people living ...

Paul Loikith of Portland State University and his colleagues investigated why the lake dropped so low. They found that most of the drop resulted from reduced streamflow into the lake. But warmer ...