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.

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

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

The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a ...

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

Advocates are still split over the best way to help people who are homeless, as cities enforce public camping bans.

City leaders and west-siders went for a walk along the Jordan River Tuesday night and discussed the future of the waterway and its trail.

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.

But today, the Great Salt Lake is dying. It reached a record low in 2022, due to climate change-induced drought and farms, municipalities and industry taking too much water.

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 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 ...

New research from the University of Utah demonstrates how wind-carried dust from the exposed bed of Great Salt Lake is disproportionately affecting disadvantaged communities in the Salt Lake metro ...