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

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

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

A spokesperson for the agency confirmed on Wednesday that the state of Utah still has, on paper, the right to use 86,000 acre ...

A dust storm blew from the Great Salt Lake across densely populated areas in Utah, including the capital city.

Projected on two large screens in front of a hotel conference room full of more than 300 people on Wednesday, a video told the story of Brandon Curtis, a Utahn who died at the age of 43 of a drug ...

The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster ... examined the intersection of politics and environmental issues as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship.

To help shape what that will look like, UIPA brought in Joel Ferry, director of Utah’s Department of Natural Resources and an influential leader on Great Salt Lake issues, as a non-voting board ...

The level of the Great Salt Lake in Utah reached a record low in 2022 ... The reduction in the lake's volume poses ecological and economic issues for Utah—but also public-health concerns ...

Five percent of the Great Salt Lake playa is fine particulate matter that can enter the lungs and cause a range of pulmonary problems, and particularly troublesome, the scientists say, is the ...

However, this rapid development has also posed problems for some longer-term ... managing this and the alarmingly low water levels of the Great Salt Lake are paramount. As water levels decline ...

The Great Salt Lake is on the verge of collapse ... in focus if we fashioned a federal rule that allowed environmental issues to be litigated before federal agencies or federal courts in the ...