The disappearance of the Great Salt Lake would cause an ecological disaster affecting millions. Drilling for deep groundwater ...

Great Salt Lake will likely have a tough summer. The saline lake relies on mountain snow melt to fill it with water, ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake Watershed Enhancement Trust ... He covers Salt Lake City, statewide transportation issues, outdoors, the environment and weather. He is a graduate of ...

Utah Lake has a reputation problem. But one of the country’s largest freshwater lakes west of the Mississippi River also has ...

Utah's powerful Speaker of the House is floating a new idea to help deal with dust blowing into communities from a shrinking ...

Gibb grows alfalfa, which has been a much-derided, water-intensive crop as Utah grapples with the impacts of drought, a changing climate and the crises facing the Great Salt Lake and Colorado River.

Utah’s phenomenal, record-breaking winter has already given the Great Salt Lake a boost ... one good year isn’t going to solve our problems.” An impressive 1.4 million acre-feet have ...

And the Great Salt Lake isn’t unique ... among other health issues. Owens Lake has been among the largest sources of dust pollution in the nation. The City of Los Angeles has spent more than ...

On Sept. 6, five environmental groups, including the Utah Rivers Council and the Center for Biological Diversity, sued Utah for failing to protect the Great Salt Lake. If they win, Utah may have ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has issued a new executive order aimed at raising the water levels of the Great Salt Lake. In a news release Friday, Cox said his order would raise ...

The level of the Great Salt Lake in Utah reached a record low in 2022 ... The reduction in the lake's volume poses ecological and economic issues for Utah—but also public-health concerns ...