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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Great Salt Lake is facing unprecedented danger according to a new report conducted by BYU students and faculty in ...

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.

With dozens of bills coming in the Utah State Legislature dealing with water, a small group of lawmakers have formed a special caucus focused on helping the Great Salt Lake.

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 ...

For the Great Salt Lake, it might be now ... “Are we willing to accept the lake is not going to be productive? That we’re going to have dust storms and an ecosystem not thriving and in collapse?

The Great Salt Lake also helps to prevent toxic dust particles from entering the atmosphere. According to the BYU report, the bed of the Great Salt Lake has pollutants such as arsenic, mercury and ...