The Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the ... provides food and habitat for millions of birds, and suppresses toxic dust in the lakebed that gets exposed as the water levels recede.

more than 800 square miles of the Great Salt Lake's bed is now exposed, amplifying concerns that exposure to toxic-laden dust is a significant health hazard. Bird said once the monitors are in ...

I have known Great Salt Lake in flood and ... exposed to the wind is laden with toxic elements, accumulated in the lake over decades. On any given day, dust devils are whipping up a storm in ...

“All of this used to be the lake,” said Perry, gesturing out to the vast expanse of land in front of him. Prior to his seven years of researching dust emission and air pollution on the Great Salt Lake ...

Last fall, the Great Salt Lake’s water levels reached an all ... Scientists are concerned because the dust contains toxic metals. In January, scientists and politicians said this winter ...

If the Great Salt Lake is already done, if it's already dried up, we're all going to die from toxic dust, then I'm just going to go ahead and water my lawn." Cox also defended inviting Utahns to ...

Due to record-low water levels, Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork is more visible than ever. But that visibility comes with ...

Whether fallout from that split could further delay progress on addressing a potentially cataclysmic future — in which clouds of toxic dust from ... water flows to Great Salt Lake and its ...

This story is about the Great Salt ... lake-effect snow provides a great deal of Utah’s water and the setting for its ski industry — and bad for human beings. A dry lakebed would create more ...

Donating a small reservoir’s worth of water rights to Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Replacing grass with rocks and water-wise ...

Great Salt Lake’s death and the death of the lives ... lake retreats and the toxins on the lake bed are uncovered, “toxic dust storms could be catastrophic for children’s health.