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Scientists grow concerned over troubling phenomenon impacting one of America's largest lakes: 'May be the death of agriculture'
Frequent and recurring droughts, with record-breaking hot temperatures and increased usage, are decreasing lake levels ...
Chonkosaurus, famed massive snapping turtle, rises again from Chicago River
Chonkosaurus,” possibly the most famous inhabitant of the Chicago River, re-appeared earlier this week after a winter of ...
Wildlife underpass reduces squished amphibians by 80%
Vulnerable amphibians are getting some help from an effective and pretty simple intervention–wildlife underpass tunnels. Long ...
Illinois wants to protect the Great Lakes from invasive carp, but a toxic mess stands in the way
The state plans to build a barrier to keep out the carp, but first it has to deal with the legacy of pollution at the ...
RealClearPolitics22d
Will Mormons Save the Great Salt Lake?
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 New York Times28d
The Great Salt Lake Is Drying. Can Utah Save It?
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.
KSL3mon
Connecting with the Great Salt Lake through stories and art
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 ...
Gizmodo4mon
The Great Salt Lake Is Dying, But These Scientists Have a Solution
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 ...
KSL5mon
What happened to the Great Salt Lake this year
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 ...
Mother Jones7mon
The Race to Save the Great Salt Lake
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 ...
Yahoo9mon
The Great Salt Lake is getting less great by the year
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 ...
The Washington Post10mon
The Great Salt Lake isn’t just drying out. It’s warming the planet.
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 ...