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.

Water at Great Salt Lake State Park was shut off today, July 14, due to a water line break and repair. The water will be shut off for two weeks to a month, according to the Dept. of Natural ...

The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a ...

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

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

A team of geologists drilled through strange formations dotting the Great Salt Lake's drying playa, and were surprised by what they found.

Leaders of the state agency that oversees the health of the Great Salt Lake say they're concerned after the lake's levels peaked about 1½ feet below its highest point last year.

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.

The Great Salt Lake is rapidly losing water, and new research indicates agriculture is to blame.

The Great Salt Lake released 4.1 million tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in 2020, researchers found — more evidence that dried-out lakes are a significant source of emissions.

Newly announced research examining greenhouse gas emissions from the drying lake bed of Great Salt Lake, Utah, calculates that 4.1 million tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were ...

Increased water levels in the lake are primarily the result of higher-than-normal snowfall, according to Hayden Mahan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City.