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

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.

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 ...

American Robert Prevost was elected as Pope Leo XIV, receiving support from the Most Rev. Oscar A. Solis of Salt Lake City.

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

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Cutler Dam is the last dam on the Bear River before the Great Salt Lake. It was a perfect spot for a group of farmers, political officials, researchers and others at an event hosted by Utah State ...

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 ...

"This is critical," said Salt Lake County Councilwoman Aimee Winder Newton. "At some point, we're going to have to rebuild our Salt Palace, and this is a great mechanism to do it." The focus now ...