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Great Salt Lake 'stands to benefit' from a normal snowpack this year
01-22-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake remains about 5½ to 8 feet below its minimum healthy level, depending on what side of it you're viewing...
More than 1,200 rally to pressure Utah leaders to save the Great Salt Lake
01-22-2024 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — People in brine shrimp costumes danced as the crowd chanted and sang on the steps of the Utah State Capitol. They waved s...
What will happen when the Great Salt Lake disappears? This video obituary anticipates that not-too-distant day.
01-22-2024 by Bethany Baker
Imagining a day in the not-too-distant future when Utah will no longer be home to the Great Salt Lake, Bonnie Baxter reads an obituary she p...
Advocates support saving Great Salt Lake with daily vigils outside capitol
01-18-2024 by Scott McKane
SALT LAKE CITY — As the 2024 legislature is underway in Utah, advocates are turning down the noise to participate in daily vigils focused on...
A drying sea half a world away carries a message for those worried about the Great Salt Lake
01-18-2024 by Levi Bridges, KUER | Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune
Aral District, Kazakhstan • When Akshabak Batimova was growing up, her father left their village in western Kazakhstan each morning to fish...
Audio: Kazakhstan’s drying Aral Sea carries a message for those worried about the Great Salt Lake
01-18-2024 by Levi Bridges
Will Utahns need to adapt to a smaller, dustier salt lake? Or can the watershed unite to reverse its decline? Great Salt Lake is often com...
Video: Drying sea half a world away carries message for those worried about Great Salt Lake
01-18-2024 by Spencer Joseph
The retreat of the Aral Sea serves as a cautionary tale for the potential fate of the Great Salt Lake. If Utahns fail to manage the stresses...
Utah unveils plans to save the Great Salt Lake, but does it do enough?
01-18-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — Tim Davis believes Utah must do everything it possibly can to help the Great Salt Lake avoid a repeat of 2022. The lake p...
Can Utah restore the Great Salt Lake in time for the 2034 Olympics? Here’s what experts say.
01-18-2024 by Leia Larsen
The 2002 Winter Games marks the last time the lake’s elevation hovered in the safe zone. The Great Salt Lake remains in a dangerous place,...
Utah bill to reduce turf on government landscape within Great Salt Lake Basin clears first hurdle
01-18-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — A bill that limits the use of "nonfunctional turf" for new government construction within the Great Salt Lake Basin passed...
Doctors urge Utah lawmakers to take immediate action on Great Salt Lake
01-11-2024 by Leia Larsen
Utahns are already choking on dangerous lake dust, their open letter notes. Days before the Utah Legislature is set to convene, doctors ha...
Doctors plead with Utah lawmakers to save the Great Salt Lake
01-11-2024 by Kim Bojórquez
More than 300 medical professionals signed a letter to state lawmakers, urging them to pass policies to save the Great Salt Lake from enviro...
New report offers 'hope' that Great Salt Lake can be saved, but it'll be a 'complicated effort'
01-11-2024 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — Joel Ferry reflected on a meaningful piece of advice his father gave him on the farm as he thought about the future of the...
'No single solution will cure the lake,' Great Salt Lake strike team report says
01-11-2024 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — A major new report prepared for Utah political leaders by state agencies and research universities concludes that "no singl...
New proposal pays Utah farmers to send water to Great Salt Lake
01-04-2024 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — A new proposal on Utah's Capitol Hill would pay farmers to send some of their water to the Great Salt Lake instead of tryin...
Students tackle Salt Lake imperative with a documentary – and the focus is Indigenous stewardship
01-04-2024 by Cristian Martinez
In the home of Darren Parry on a Sunday afternoon, five Salt Lake Community College students circle the former Northwestern Shoshone Nation...
The Salton Sea shows why Utah should pay attention to Great Salt Lake’s stench
01-04-2024 by Saige Miller
The eighth largest saline lake in the world is a Utah icon. More than 10 million birds take sanctuary there every year. And sometimes, Gre...
Study says a GSL pipeline is not only incredibly expensive, but very polluting
01-04-2024 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — A recent study by Brigham Young University appears to make the notion of a pipeline from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Sal...
Utah asks for Great Salt Lake lawsuit to be dismissed
12-21-2023 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's Department of Natural Resources, the Division of Forestry, Fire & State Lands and the state engineer have asked a ju...
Utah lawmaker: The Great Salt Lake could lose 10 feet if cities reuse their wastewater
12-21-2023 by Peter Johnston
SALT LAKE CITY– A battle over where wastewater goes is pitting the needs of cities against the shrinking Great Salt Lake. Currently, citie...
Utah files motion seeking to drop lawsuit over its management of Great Salt Lake
12-21-2023 by Carter Williams
SALT LAKE CITY — Three Utah agencies are seeking to drop a lawsuit filed against them earlier this year over their management of the Great S...
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