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 ...

A dying Great Salt Lake could make the historic home of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uninhabitable. What ...

Legislative leaders have been talking about water conservation and saving the Great Salt Lake, going so far as to declare it ...

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 have ...

Salt Lake City's namesake is evaporating, and with it a resource crucial to the West's economy, weather and health — not to ...

Utah's Great Salt Lake is on track to disappear within five years, a dire new report warns, imperiling ecosystems and exposing millions of people to toxic dust from the drying lake bed.

Utah leaders are under pressure to end water diversions and enforce tougher restrictions in order save the drying Great Salt ...

Scholars and conservationists released a briefing this week urging emergency water saving measures to prevent the looming collapse of Utah's Great Salt Lake ... exposes toxic dust and drives ...

The shrinking Great Salt Lake is facing ecological collapse as salinity levels rise. State leaders hope a hearty snowpack and ...