It travels further still: dust from the Great Salt Lake has been found from Southern Utah to Wyoming. When toxic dust reaches ...

Saline lakes are rapidly losing water to climate change and agricultural and urban uses, becoming some of the West’s most ...

House and Senate leaders will unveil a series of bills next week aimed at water conservation and the Great Salt Lake.

This year’s legislative session will be critical in bringing the Great Salt ... source of dust. Nate Blouin, the newly elected Democratic senator representing parts of Salt Lake County, said ...

Last summer, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observed dust blowing 85 miles from its source ...

Utah’s Great Salt ... of toxic minerals, particularly high levels of arsenic, left behind by many years of mining. Right now, the minerals are safely trapped at the bottom of the lake.

The Great Salt Lake is drying up, and its impact to the environment and economy could be major.

Editor's note: This article is published through The Great Salt Lake ... That's because the lake's downfall exposes the areas surrounding the lake to its toxic dust plumes among other potential ...

There are impacts to Utah's economy, wildlife, toxic dust storms and reduced snowpack. "The drying up and potential disappearance of the Great Salt Lake is the existential crisis of our time ...

Toxic dust storms will poison cities. 5. What is the only way to save the Great Salt Lake? The only way to save the Great Salt Lake is to decrease the amount of water removed from the rivers that ...

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