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

Great Salt Lake isn’t the first lake to be used as a sewer and dumping ground. In the 1960s, following years of industrial pollution, Lake Erie was declared dead.

At the R Store in this small northern Oklahoma town, you're guaranteed to find supplies needed for a stay at the Great Salt Plains Lake— bait, tackle, camping gear, food, ...

A polluted tailings pond at the Kennecott Utah mine has sunk 20 feet or more, raising concerns that it has seeped ...

The Great Salt Lake is more than 12 times larger than Owens Lake, and there’s no single city or deep-pocketed culprit to blame for its predicament. It remains a statewide problem with no easy ...

The Great Salt Lake has hit a new historic low for the second time in less than a year. Utah Department of Natural Resources said Monday, June 5, 2022, in a news release, the lake dipped Sunday to ...

Great Salt Lake is also known as America’s Dead Sea – owing to a likeness to its much smaller Middle Eastern counterpart – but scientists worry the moniker could soon take new meaning.

As Great Salt Lake dries up, it emits millions of tons of CO2 A new study found that the drying Great Salt Lake in Utah is now a major source of the gas emissions that are causing the climate to warm.

A man looks out over the shoreline at Great Salt Lake State Park in Salt Lake County on Feb. 7. The lake's southern arm is already back to its 2023 peak and could reach 4,195 feet elevation this ...

The Great Salt Lake has seen a resurgence in global interest, doubling visitation over the past five years. Visitors from all 50 U.S. states and six continents explored the lake in 2024.

In fall 2022, the Great Salt Lake hit its lowest water level since record keeping began. The lake’s elevation sank to nearly six meters below the long-term average.

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.