A new study published Tuesday zooms in on just how much farmers in the Great Salt Lake basin need to cut back on livestock-feed crops, and suggests how to make it easier for everyone. The scientific s...

Fly fishing is Emmett Heath's heaven and the Green River is his god. Heath got hooked on angling as a young teen while fishing with his father in Utah. It became more than a past-time or a sport and i...

In its first year, the Youth Coalition for Great Salt Lake , comprised of about 15 high school and college age students, has accomplished a lot. They are working with organizations and lake stakeholde...

The Colorado River, considered the lifeblood of the southwest, is so depleted that it no longer reaches the ocean. It supplies water to more than 40 million people, including two million residents alo...

Utah program pays farmers to fallow crops and it’s saving a little bit of water for the Colorado River. Whether it should be a solution for Great Salt Lake is still a thorny issue with ripple effects...

Utah is spending more than $200 million to get agriculture to switch to water saving technologies. But is the saved water getting to the Great Salt Lake?

Utah program helps farmers grow crops with less water. Is it helping the Great Salt Lake?

Removing all high-water-use plants is not the panacea in times of rising temperatures and droughts across the southwest, according to a new study. Deadly flooding of the Indus River in Pakistan back i...

The Great Salt Lake Hydro Mapper is a user-friendly webpage with information about what’s happening with Great Salt Lake in real-time, like the water and salinity levels and most importantly, what’s h...

Matt Yost is a Utah State University professor in Plants, Soils & Climate and USU Extension specialist. He knows farming first-hand. He grew up on a dairy farm in Burley Idaho. “My father still operat...