The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster with health and economic effects far beyond Utah’s borders ...

The legislative and executive appetite to get water to the lake has absolutely evaporated.” BEN ABBOTT, ecology professor at Brigham Young University and the lead author of a 2023 report warning that ...

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.

An environmental group says a dust event near Saltair over the weekend highlights how dust is still flying off the Great Salt ...

Saving the Great Salt Lake isn’t something that can be done overnight, and definitely not without some tough choices.

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 ...

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

She shared those images with FOX 13 News and described seeing dust blowing off of the Rio Tinto Kennecott tailings pile and the Great Salt Lake playa. "To experience being caught up in a dust ...

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 ...

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