“We've all seen phragmites, that giant tall grass. It's widespread across the entire US,” said Pete Goodwin, a wetland ecologist with the Utah Geological Survey (UGS). He is working to map and model t...

Over the past 40 years, Great Salt Lake has shrunk dramatically. As water levels drop, more of the lakebed is exposed. “There's a lot more dried lakebed sediments that are prone to re-suspension durin...