The Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, reached historic low levels in 2022, raising economic, ecological and public health concerns for Utah. New research from ...

The Great Salt Lake in the United States poses a growing threat to 1.2 million residents. Record-low water levels and toxic sediments are serious concerns. The Great Salt Lake, located in Utah and one ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake and California’s Salton Sea ... Every day since the lake dried up, Féliz Mauricio has toiled in mud-splattered clothes to make adobe bricks. “We have no lake, ...

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, over the past couple of years, the state approved about 2,500 acre-feet of new water ...

Grow the Flow, a Utah-based water policy and advocacy non-profit group, has placed billboards throughout Salt Lake County, ...

Dozens of youth activists fanned out across the Utah State Capitol, texting and calling lawmakers, asking them to do more for the Great Salt Lake ...

Since November 2024, approximately 15,000 to 25,000 eared grebes have died along the Great Salt Lake, according to the Utah ...

“In other parts of the world, where saline lakes have been allowed to shrivel up because of upstream diversions like ... Recent polling from Utah State University shows that drought and a drying Great ...

Clocking in at roughly 35 miles wide and 75 miles long, the Great Salt Lake is the largest natural saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere. The lake's name comes from the nature of the water ...

Feb. 21, 2024 — It has been long assumed that Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats was formed as its ancient namesake lake dried up 13,000 years ago. But new research has gutted that narrative ...