Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz has an idea to mitigate the dust blowing into communities from the drying Great Salt Lake.

The state is trying to bridge the gap in its monitoring network, a state environmental scientist said, but it is "exceedingly ...

Toxic dust from the drying Great Salt Lake is a threat to Utah's health and future. State regulators and lawmakers must ...

A new University of Utah study warns that a dried Great Salt Lake bed and toxic dust storms could bring huge business losses ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's powerful Speaker of the House is floating a new idea to help deal with dust blowing into communities from a shrinking Great Salt Lake. "There’s several places across ...

One of America’s most unique ecological landmarks is disappearing. The Great Salt Lake, once the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere, sticks out ...

Leia Larsen is a reporter at. She spent a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining the intersection of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A dust event near Saltair over the weekend highlights how dust is still flying off the Great Salt Lake despite its recent gains, a local environmental group says. They add that ...

sometimes billowing toxic dust plumes across the state’s urban core. “Fast crises often get more attention than slow crises,” said Brian Steed, the state’s newly appointed Great Salt Lake ...

This issue also applies to the Great Salt Lake. "The conditions in the spring and summer are favorable for creating large dust events," Bird said after a Great Salt Lake dust event last month.