The dust blowing from the dry bed of the Great Salt Lake is creating a serious public health threat, two environmental ...
Note to readers • Leia Larsen is a reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune. She spent a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining the intersection of politics and environmental issues.
SALT LAKE CITY — Saving the Great Salt Lake is Utah's chance at a "moonshot" — accomplishing something that has never been done before. A report released Thursday by the Property and Environment ...
Retreating water levels are exposing stretches of cracked, arsenic-laden lakebed in Utah. Future dust storms will carry an extra hazard. People wade in the waters of the Great Salt Lake at Antelope ...
Editor's note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about ...
PROVO, Utah — Dr. Ben Abbott was out for a mountain bike ride when he saw the dust storm. He pulled out his phone and took video of Saturday's storm that blew into the Provo-Orem area. Buildings were ...
Farmington • Elected leaders, business executives and private philanthropists gathered Wednesday to announce a new pool of money and a message: Utah has not given up on saving the Great Salt Lake. The ...
Utah water officials began controlled releases of water from Utah Lake this week, sending 23 billion gallons to the Great Salt Lake through the Jordan River. Water officials occasionally conduct water ...
As the search for solutions to the shrinking Great Salt Lake continues, researchers at Utah State University opened up conversations with the biggest water users in the state: farmers. Among the ...
The shrinking and potential disappearance of the Great Salt Lake is one of the most important environmental issues and public ...
The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster with health and economic effects far beyond Utah’s borders. The state is taking action, but critics say it’s not doing enough.