A Blackhawk helicopter flies over the Great Salt Lake as Utah lawmakers take an aerial tour of the Great Salt Lake with the Air National Guard. The group left from the Capitol in Salt Lake City ...

Rep. Steve Handy, R-Layton, and Rep. Jeffrey Stenquist, R-Draper, and other Utah lawmakers take an aerial tour of the Great Salt Lake in Blackhawk helicopters from the Air National Guard.

As Great Salt Lake's levels continue to sag, yet another strange phenomenon has surfaced, offering Utah scientists more ...

Rep. Steve Handy, R-Layton, and Rep. Jeffrey Stenquist, R-Draper, and other Utah lawmakers take an aerial tour of the Great Salt Lake in Blackhawk helicopters from the Air National Guard.

The Great Salt Lake is a terminal lake, where water leaves only through evaporation, ... “You could see a lot of it as we flew over that lake” during a recent aerial tour.

In recent years, strange reed-covered mounds have sprung up on the drying playa of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, revealing spots ...

It's no secret that the Great Salt Lake is shrinking, hitting yet another historic low in July, but a nonprofit is taking flight to provide the public with an aerial view of what is at risk.

Great Salt Lake evaporates an incredible amount of water every year and Lake Powell and ... I’m hoping to get an aerial tour next month to see how much the lake has changed since the influx of ...

On a recent flight home to Salt Lake City, I gazed out the window and shuddered. The ground below was riddled with cracks. Sporadic green pools dotted the dry earth where vast water had once been.

As the spring runoff is about to get underway, a small nonprofit is giving Utah officials, scientists and reporters a valuable perspective on the Great Salt Lake: a bird’s-eye view.

A group of Utah legislators flew over the shrinking Great Salt Lake early Tuesday morning to see just how badly it is diminishing due to drought and diversions.