One thing locals are most worried about is toxic dust released from Great Salt Lake's exposed lake beds. Thanks to receding water levels, toxins are being released into the air. That said ...

The largest saline lake in North America is on track to collapse within five years, a new report finds Margaret Osborne Daily Correspondent Boat docks sit on dry, cracked earth at the Great Salt ...

Legislative leaders have been talking about water conservation and saving the Great Salt Lake, going so far as to declare it ...

It travels further still: dust from the Great Salt Lake has been found from Southern Utah to Wyoming. When toxic dust reaches us, we breathe it in. So do our kids. There’s no doubt that air ...

Climate change, agribusiness, and mining interests are choking the Great Salt Lake. Activists say Utah's state legislature ...

Utah leaders are under pressure to end water diversions and enforce tougher restrictions in order save the drying Great Salt ...

California's Owens Lake is the nation's largest source of PM10, the tiny pollutants found in dust and smoke, while plumes blowing off the 800 square miles of the Great Salt Lake’s exposed bed ...

As lawmakers were opening the state's wallet to spend a half billion dollars on water conservation including strategies in ...

Salt Lake City's namesake is evaporating, and with it a resource crucial to the West's economy, weather and health — not to ...

toxic dust storms and impacts to public health, wildlife and the economy. Lawmakers are expected to spend upwards of $500 million on water conservation and Great Salt Lake measures this year.

The Great Salt Lake is facing unprecedented danger according ... economy as well as increased precipitation, suppressing toxic dust and supporting 80% of Utah’s wetlands, according to the ...