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An environmental group says a dust event near Saltair over the weekend highlights how dust is still flying off the Great Salt ...
Great Salt Lake dust storm has returned attention to gaps in air quality monitoring on the shores of the troubled lake.
SALT LAKE CITY — Dead birds continue to wash up on the shores of Great Salt Lake following the tens of thousands of bird flu ...
Carmen ValDez was coming back from a camping trip on Sunday when she saw it. "I saw the Saltair covered in dust and a nice, big dust storm," she said.
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 ...
Utah’s Great Salt Lake, once a shimmering inland sea almost as large as Delaware, is shrinking at a staggering pace. Where ...
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 ...
SOUTH SALT LAKE—Evacuation orders have been lifted with gas and power restored to an area of South Salt Lake where city officials ordered evacuations Sunday evening due to a gas leak and fire.
It’s been three years — and three legislative sessions — since the Great Salt Lake and Lake Powell hit record lows due to years of drought and chronic overuse. Public fervor to save the two ...
SOUTH SALT LAKE CITY — An evacuation order was lifted Monday morning following a gas leak and resulting fire that led to the evacuation of the area of 3300 South to 3500 South and West Temple to ...
Utah environmental advocates worry it could affect 79% of the water in the Great Salt Lake Basin. Environmental Protection Agency announced in March that it would review the definition of ...