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 ...

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 ...

In 2022, the Great Salt Lake – celebrated as the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere – dropped to unprecedented low levels. This alarming decline has triggered widespread concerns in Utah ...

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 ...

The world watches as the Great Salt Lake, one of Earth’s largest saline lakes, deteriorates. Over the past 30 years, the lake has lost a staggering 15 billion cubic yards (11.4 billion cubic meters) ...

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 ...

Low water levels at Great Salt Lake continue to threaten Utah’s economic, ecological, and human health. On Tuesday, the Great Salt Lake Strike Team — a collaboration of technical experts from Utah’s ...

Questions have recently been raised as to whether or not Great Salt Lake remains at immediate risk of ecological collapse due to the recent above average snow years. The facts remain clear ...