It travels further still: dust from the Great Salt Lake has been found from Southern Utah to Wyoming. When toxic dust reaches ...

Saline lakes are rapidly losing water to climate change and agricultural and urban uses, becoming some of the West’s most ...

House and Senate leaders will unveil a series of bills next week aimed at water conservation and the Great Salt Lake.

Utah’s Great Salt ... of toxic minerals, particularly high levels of arsenic, left behind by many years of mining. Right now, the minerals are safely trapped at the bottom of the lake.

Last summer, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observed dust blowing 85 miles from its source ...

The Great Salt Lake is drying up, and its impact to the environment and economy could be major.

There are impacts to Utah's economy, wildlife, toxic dust storms and reduced snowpack. "The drying up and potential disappearance of the Great Salt Lake is the existential crisis of our time ...

Toxic dust storms will poison cities. 5. What is the only way to save the Great Salt Lake? The only way to save the Great Salt Lake is to decrease the amount of water removed from the rivers that ...

For the Great Salt Lake, it might be now ... “Are we willing to accept the lake is not going to be productive? That we’re going to have dust storms and an ecosystem not thriving and in collapse?

California’s Owens Lake was once the nation’s largest source of PM10, the tiny pollutants found in dust and smoke, and plumes blowing off the 800 square miles of the Great Salt Lake’s ...