Utah lawmakers are getting a bird's-eye view of the Great Salt Lake as it shrinks amid the historic drought. About 60 lawmakers took off from the Capitol Tuesday morning on Utah National Guard ...

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.

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.

About 10 million birds visit the Great Salt Lake every year, and this week, about 90 state lawmakers are going to get a bird’s-eye view of how rapidly that critical habitat is shrinking.

A Virtual 3D Satellite Fly-Over of Utah's Once Great Salt Lake Reveals Shocking Shrinkage Thanks to overuse of water and ... By Tom Yulsman. Jul 23, 2022 1:30 AM Jul 23, 2022 2:58 PM. This simulated ...

A weather satellite captured an image of a dust plume from Farmington Bay blowing into the Salt Lake City area on January 20, 2025. The Great Salt Lake hit a record low water level in 2022 as a ...

Aerial photo showing Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” on the northern banks of the Great Salt Lake, and the Rozel Point landscape to which it is attached, Aug. 26, 2009.

The European Space Agency shared a new satellite look at Utah's Great Salt Lake this week, and it shows just how much the famous body of water has diminished. The July 2022 view comes from ESA's ...

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

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.

One satellite image shows the level of "average aerosol concentrations near the open-areas of the lake bed produced using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite from 1 June to 15 July 2022." ...

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.