On a recent flight home to Salt Lake City, I gazed out the window and shuddered. The ground below was riddled with cracks.

The Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Program Act, sponsored by Rep. Blake Moore, R-Utah, and introduced with Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, directs the U.S. Geological Survey to ...

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative The rising sun reflects off of pools of water and brine that are part of the Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Program on the mostly dry lakebed in Inyo County, California ...

A new water management plan for the Great Salt Lake Basin was completed earlier this week, which the state hopes will ensure an ongoing, resilient water supply for northern Utah. The Great Salt ...

With the Great Salt Lake in peril and shrinking by the day, Gov. Spencer Cox has issued a proclamation closing the lake’s watershed to any new water rights appropriations. The lake hit a record ...

Snowpack on the mountains above Ogden and the Great Salt Lake on May 9. Utah water managers are working on a plan to better understand and manage water in the Great Salt Lake Basin, which can help ...

Last November, the Great Salt Lake, iconic landmark of the Great Basin Desert, fell to its lowest surface elevation ever recorded. The lake had lost 73% of its water and 60% of its area. More than ...

But deserts are dynamic and desert lakes fragile, none more so than Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Emblematic of the West’s Great Basin, the Great Salt Lake has no outlet.

Utah's Great Salt Lake doesn't look so "great" these days. This place where tourists once bobbed up and down like corks in water far saltier than the ocean is now quite literally turning to dust.

There’s a lot of desire to understand how water moves in the Great Salt Lake basin, engineer Bingham said, but officials “didn’t want to just start putting measuring devices in places ...

Snowpack on the mountains above Ogden and the Great Salt Lake on May 9. Utah water managers are working on a plan to better understand and manage water in the Great Salt Lake Basin, which can help ...