The Great Salt Lake typically rises and then falls about 2 feet every year, with snow and then summer heat. But ...

Gibb grows alfalfa, which has been a much-derided, water-intensive crop as Utah grapples with the impacts of drought, a ...

Scholars and conservationists released a briefing this week urging emergency water saving measures to prevent the looming collapse of Utah's Great Salt Lake. Without an urgent and dramatic ...

There are, experts say, alternative solutions that would allow Utah farms and the Great Salt Lake to not only coexist ... the black a little more than the red helps." Steve Clyde stands by a ...

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.

Sailfest is a Great Salt Lake tradition, returning to the lake this weekend. But event organizers fear that this year's event could be the last for the foreseeable future.

The disappearance of the Great Salt Lake would cause an ecological disaster affecting millions. Drilling for deep groundwater ...

Scholars with the Wallace Stegner Center at the University of Utah‘s S.J. Quinney College of Law posit what they call “the unthinkable” — a desiccated Great Salt Lake-turned-Great Salt ...

Scientists say the drying Great Salt Lake in Utah is now becoming a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions that are causing the climate to warm, according to a new study.

Three years ago, when the Great Salt Lake was at its lowest levels, Utah lawmakers were alarmed enough to try what may be impossible: save the lake from drying up. If the state succeeds ...