While the influx is not enough to restore the Salt Lake, it shows Utah lawmakers' dedication to finding solutions for the ...
More dry lakebed getting exposed could send arsenic-laced dust into the air that millions breathe. “A lot us have been talking about the lake as flatlining,” said Lynn de Freitas, executive director ...
Why now: "It's because of so many years of drought and climate change and water diversions, and we can't keep going like that," says Bonnie Baxter, director of the Great Salt Lake Institute.
In turn, that troubled ecosystem exposes areas near the lake to toxic dust and other environmental concerns. "If we allow these birds, their habitat and the Great Salt Lake to disappear ...
A new water management plan for the Great Salt Lake Basin was completed earlier this week, which the state hopes will ensure ...
Or maybe better put, an other worldly landscape: the vast, and drying wetlands along the Great Salt Lake, the largest saline lake left in the western hemisphere, some fifty miles long and thirty wide.
Half of the Great Salt Lake in Utah has now dried up but scientists say there's still some time left to reverse its decline. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Drive west of this sprawling high desert city ...