A polluted tailings pond at the Kennecott Utah mine has sunk 20 feet or more, raising concerns that it has seeped contamination into the neighboring Great Salt Lake.

Teen apprentices at Spy Hop learned about the Great Salt Lake through a partnership with local journalists and experts via ...

As the seagulls once saved the people, Utahns now have the opportunity to save the birds and themselves from a dying Great ...

Millions of eared grebes visit Great Salt Lake to rest and refuel en route to their winter homes on the Pacific Coast each ...

The Great Salt Lake’s North Arm, separated from freshwater instream flows by a railroad causeway, radiates a bright pink from microorganisms that survive high salinity.

Wake the Great Salt Lake was one of eight applicants chosen to receive a $1 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge to focus public art on civic issues.

Governor Spencer Cox has issued a proclamation suspending any new water appropriations in the Bear, Jordan and Weber river basins in an effort to help get more water into the Great Salt Lake.

A dropping lake level affects agriculture, public health and the environment — but water conservation can halt the decline.

Brian Steed is the Great Salt Lake Commissioner, a powerful new position in Utah government. He will come up with plans to reverse the lake's historic declines and make it thrive.

The Great Salt Lake has already received a welcome boost since the end of the irrigation season, but experts hope that run will continue after recent storm activity within its basin.

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 ...

Scientists warned Utah lawmakers the state would face "unprecedented" danger if the Great Salt Lake doesn't receive an influx of water by next year.