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 ...

Great Salt Lake in Utah has hit unprecedented low water levels in 2022, raising serious ecological, economic, and health concerns. The decline is driven by reduced streamflows, increased ...

The Great Salt Lake’s two arms are each three feet higher than two years ago when the lake hit historic lows. A dry end to the summer and an abnormally dry fall meant the Great Salt Lake lost ...

Clocking in at roughly 35 miles wide and 75 miles long, the Great Salt Lake is the largest natural saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere. The lake's name comes from the nature of the water ...

Scientists have discovered a new species in Utah's Great Salt Lake that could change what we know about its ecosystem. An investigation into the 950-sqaure-mile water body began when a researcher ...

The level of the Great Salt Lake in Utah reached a record low in 2022—a decline widely attributed to low stream flows from the lake's three major tributaries as a result of a combination of ...

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 ...

It’s up to Utah farmers to save the Great Salt Lake, according to a new study published Tuesday. New research quantifies just how much water must be saved to restore the lake, proposes how to ...

Reducing the amount of water used to irrigate livestock feed crops may be critical to revitalizing the dried-out Great Salt Lake, a new study has found. About 62 percent of the river water heading ...

The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, and new research published Tuesday reports that saving it requires reducing the amount of farmland that is irrigated in the region. In recent decades, climate ...