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.

It’s a feeding frenzy for birds out on the Great Salt Lake that rely on its ecosystem — billions of Brine Flies are buzzing ...

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

One of America’s most unique ecological landmarks is disappearing. The Great Salt Lake, once the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere, sticks out on maps of the United States as a large ...

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.

SALT LAKE CITY — A downtown public art installation aims to connect people with the Great Salt Lake using stories and photography. "Stay Salty: Lakefacing Stories" is a multimedia art ...

A worrying study published last month in Environmental Challenges claims that nearly two-thirds of the Great Salt Lake’s shrinkage is attributable to human use of river water that otherwise ...

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 ...

Read the full package here. In October 2021, an increasingly dire megadrought had left Utah’s most famous lake at its lowest level in recorded history. As Great Salt Lake lay dying, Democrats ...

Utah's Great Salt Lake is drying out and releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The effect of drying lakes has largely not been included in climate calculations, making true emissions ...

Like some dystopian astronaut, Melissa Cobo would hike the searing flats of the dried-out Great Salt Lake every couple of weeks, hauling a heavy backpack attached by a hose to what looked like the ...

Why now: "It's because of so many years of drought and climate change and water diversions, and we can't keep going like that," says Bonnie Baxter, director of the Great Salt Lake Institute.