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Salt Lake Tribune

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dust obscures Antelope Island and the Great Salt Lake on Saturday, June 18, 2022.

Is this what finally prompts action to save the Great Salt Lake? Activist and researchers hope so.

08-28-2024 by Megan Banta and Jose Davila IV

One community activist on Salt Lake County’s west side is ready for solutions, not just studies, about air quality and environmental injusti...

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Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Joel Ferry leads the Great Salt Lake Commissioner’s office, including Brian Steed, as well as members of the media through his farm to look at Bear River. (Erin Lewis, UPR)

Audio: How a business, water district, and farm are sending water to Great Salt Lake

08-26-2024 by Erin Lewis

Water conservation efforts across the state have increased over recent years. We visited a business, a farm, and a water district, all utili...

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KSL NewsRadio

Promontory Point during an EcoFlight around the Great Salt Lake on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. (Scott G Winterton/Deseret News)

The summer heat could cost the Great Salt Lake more water than normal, lose much of its year-long progress, officials say

08-26-2024 by Adam Small

SALT LAKE CITY — It’s safe to say the brutal start to this summer along the Wasatch Front has hit Great Salt Lake especially hard. Deputy...

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Great Salt Lake Collaborative

In this photo from spring 2024, students from Wasatch Elementary in Salt Lake City work on an art project about the Great Salt Lake with Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore. (Photo courtesy Lisa Bickmore)

Ahead of September book discussion event, Utah Poet Laureate shares the role of Great Salt Lake in her work

08-26-2024 by Mariah Maynes

SALT LAKE CITY — Lisa Bickmore, Utah’s Poet Laureate, will lead a discussion of Terry Tempest Williams’ book ‘Refuge: An Unnatural History o...

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Fox 13

The Great Salt Lake Commissioner says two great water years have put the Great Salt Lake in a much better spot than it was back in 2022. (Photo, FOX 13 News)

Video: How water saving, conservation efforts are helping benefit Great Salt Lake

08-21-2024 by Chris Arnold

CORINNE, Utah — The Great Salt Lake Commissioner says two great water years have put the Great Salt Lake in a much better spot than it was b...

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Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Group of women rafters cooking and relaxing on the bank of the river. (Photo courtesy Zan Merrill).

Audio: A group of women come together through rafting Western rivers

08-21-2024 by Erin Lewis and Sheri Quinn

There is a group of women who have come together each year for decades to raft western rivers. Zan Merrill is one of those women. “Rivers ar...

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KSL.com

A male red-winged blackbird flies near the Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area on May 8. About $6.5 million in new funds are being made available for projects that protect or improve the Great Salt Lake's wetlands. A male red-winged blackbird flies near the Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area on May 8. About $6.5 million in new funds are being made available for projects that protect or improve the Great Salt Lake's wetlands. (Scott G Winterton, Deseret News)

Utah opens up another $6.5M for projects that benefit Great Salt Lake wetlands

08-21-2024 by Carter Williams

SALT LAKE CITY — Projects to enhance or protect over 13,000 acres of Great Salt Lake wetlands are ongoing. While that work continues, memb...

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St. George News

Water-efficient desert landscaping at the St. George home of Molly Graf, one of the stops on the future Parade of Gardens Southern Utah tour scheduled for September, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2024 | Photo by Mori Kessler, St. George News

Several Southern Utah residents will be opening their yards to show off ‘creative’ water-wise landscaping

08-19-2024 by Mori Kessler

ST. GEORGE — As the pursuit to replace “lazy lawns” with desert-friendly, water-efficient landscaping continues in Washington County and acr...

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St. George News

This fire photo shows wildfire burns near Kolob Terrace Road, Washington County, Utah, July 20, 2022 | Photo courtesy of Joshua Pettit, St. George News

Video: From flames to floods: How wildfires could impact the Southern Utah water supply

08-19-2024 by Mori Kessler

ST. GEORGE — Need another reason to avoid starting a wildfire? The danger of wildfires goes beyond turning forests and homes to ash; they al...

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KSL-TV

Video: Researchers using spiders to better understand Great Salt Lake pollution

08-14-2024 by Mike Anderson

SALT LAKE CITY — If you’re like most people, you might choose to stay away from spots like this. But maybe not, if you’re a scientist. “I...

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Deseret News

A sailboat is seen at the Great Salt Lake State Park in Magna on Saturday, June 15, 2024. A new analysis identifies gaps in infrastructure and ways the state can improve how water gets to the Great Salt Lake. Marielle Scott, Deseret News

How water moves through the Great Salt Lake drainage

08-14-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

A recently completed yearlong analysis probed how water moves through the Great Salt Lake basin and how to better understand what improvemen...

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Fox 13

Video: For the first time in 30 years, a bird census is being conducted on the Great Salt Lake

08-14-2024 by Ben Winslow

ANTELOPE ISLAND, Utah — Conservationists and volunteers fanned out across the Great Salt Lake for a new census of migrating birds that stop...

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Deseret News

Uranium tailings are pictured near the Colorado River, north of Moab in Grand County on Sunday, April 28, 2024. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

Radioactive tailings near the Colorado River close to full removal

08-08-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Sixteen million tons of radioactive uranium tailings once sat near the banks of the Colorado River, putting the waterway in peril of contami...

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Fox 13

One Utah city will offer prizes to get people to conserve more water

08-05-2024 by Ben Winslow

MILLCREEK, Utah — In an effort to get more residents to conserve water, Millcreek city leaders are launching a game. The city has agreed t...

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KSL.com

Great Salt Lake's dry lakebed 'big' producer of greenhouse gas emissions, study finds

07-29-2024 by Carter Williams

SALT LAKE CITY — While researchers continue to investigate the effects that dust from the Great Salt Lake might have on communities, a new s...

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Fox 13

Great Salt Lake is a major source of greenhouse gases, study says

07-27-2024 by Ben Winslow

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake is a big contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study. The Royal Ontario Museum...

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Salt Lake Tribune

Another Lake Powell pipeline proposal — but for Arizona tribes

07-26-2024 by Anastasia Hufham

Proposed legislation would bring water from the reservoir to tribal communities who lack access to drinking water, Arizona lawmakers say...

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Salt Lake Tribune

Utah received money to study the harmful effects of Great Salt Lake dust. It just hasn’t spent it.

07-26-2024 by Anastasia Hufham

The Utah Legislature provided funding for increased dust monitoring in 2023. As the Great Salt Lake shrinks, dust from its lakebeds impact...

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KSL.com

The gap between the Great Salt Lake's arms is closing. What does that mean for salinity?

07-26-2024 by Carter Williams

SALT LAKE CITY — The difference between the Great Salt Lake's northern and southern arms continues to shrink, but the state office tasked wi...

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PBS Utah

PBS Utah: Drought and the Colorado River

07-25-2024 by Utah Insight by PBS Utah

How can Utah best negotiate water rights with a growing population and ongoing drought? Water storage at Lake Powell and Lake Mead is curren...

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KUER

The Utah Water Savers program says lawn irrigation makes up a majority of household water use. That's why the state is looking to encourage Utahns to swap out thirsty grass for more waterwise landscaping. Tilda Wilson/KUER

Utah’s 4th-largest city isn’t a part of the state’s grass replacement plan. Why?

07-25-2024 by Tilda Wilson

Utah launched its Landscape Conversion Incentive Program in 2023. It offers a rebate to homeowners who switch out their grass with more wate...

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