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Aerial view of harvester and speeder boats deploying containment booms in preparation for harvesting brine shrimp (Artemia) on Great Salt Lake. Courtesy Great Salt Lake Artemia.

The world needs to feed 10 billion people. The Great Salt Lake could teach us how.

12-05-2023 by Emma Penrod

Saving the Great Salt Lake is important because it makes a critical international industry more sustainable. Editor’s note: This story is...

Fox 13

A highly-anticipated report on saving the Great Salt Lake is delivered to Utah leaders

12-05-2023 by Ben Winslow

SALT LAKE CITY — A highly-anticipated report recommending ways to save the Great Salt Lake has been delivered to Utah's governor and legisla...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

This photo from 1930 shows a promotional sign at Saltair. In 1893 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built Saltair on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, sixteen miles from downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. It was sold to a private individual in 1906. The main attraction was swimming in the Great Salt Lake. There was also a roller coaster, a merry-go-round, a ferris wheel, midway games, bicycle races, touring vaudeville companies, rodeos, bullfights, boat rides on the lake, firework display and even hot-air balloons. In 1925 it burned to the ground. A new pavilion was designed and built but it never regained its popularity. It closed for good in 1958. It was again destroyed by fire in November of 1970. Photo used by permission, Uintah County Library Regional History Center, all rights reserved.

Why save the Great Salt Lake? A special report

11-30-2023 by Emma Penrod

Here’s a question that catches people off guard: What would happen if Utah is successful in saving the Great Salt Lake? For the past two y...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jake Young, landscape architect designed this park strip in Farmington, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023.

Fixing the lake could pave the way to solving Utah’s mental health crisis

11-28-2023 by Emma Penrod

How thinking about water when planning cities and homes can save the lake and lead to happier, more connected Utahns Editor’s note: This s...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

This illustration shows a way to develop communities along the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake so that sprawl is limited and the wetlands are buffered. It was created by Utah State University’s Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning seniors in their capstone class in Spring 2023.

How to build a lake-friendly yard, neighborhood

11-28-2023 by Heather May

Is it possible to create a Great Salt Lake friendly neighborhood? Seniors in Utah State University’s Landscape Architecture & Environmenta...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Caleb Wilkins is the CEO of the agricultural startup Renaissance Ag. Courtesy Renaissance Ag. His goal is to produce more food in less space by using vertical farming techniques.

Farming goes high tech

11-28-2023 by Emma Penrod

Renaissance Ag CEO Caleb Wilkins does not believe farmers set out to destroy the environment, the land on which they depend. They know how t...

Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Kelby Johnson with his sons Luke (in his arms) and Wyatt. Johnson runs a 100-acre farm in Benson, Utah, and hopes his children will become fifth-generation family farmers. But the Johnsons must withstand pressure to sell to developers and cut costs and water for the Great Salt Lake. (Jeffrey Dahdah, KSL-TV).

The Great Salt Lake and Utah farms could save each other. Here's how.

11-28-2023 by Emma Penrod

Surprise: Agriculture and the lake need each other to survive Editor’s note: This story is part of a series of stories by the Great Salt L...

Fox 13

Utah lawmakers get a look at Washington County's water, growth demands

09-20-2023 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

Mitigating dust from a shrinking Great Salt Lake could cost more than a billion dollars to fix, a new report from the Utah State Legislature's Auditor General found.

Great Salt Lake's dust could cost $1.5 billion to fix with costs 'skyrocketing' as more lakebed is exposed

09-20-2023 by Ben Winslow

KSL.com

Water flows through a breach in the Great Salt Lake railroad causeway on May 3. The lake's northern arm remains within 1 foot of its record low set last year. Water flows through a breach in the Great Salt Lake railroad causeway on May 3. The lake's northern arm remains within 1 foot of its record low set last year. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)

Why is this section of the Great Salt Lake still close to its record low?

09-20-2023 by Carter Williams

KSL.com

'They're supposed to put it all back': How new Utah rules aim to protect Great Salt Lake's water

09-14-2023 by Carter Williams

Fox 13

GSL license plate nears halfway mark

09-14-2023 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

Utah settles with U.S. Magnesium over years of environmental violations

09-14-2023 by Ben Winslow

The Globe

Members of the Great Salt Lake Collaborative work on an assignment in California in 2022. The team consisted of The Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News, FOX-13 and KSL-TV. (Spenser Heaps, Deseret News)

Great Salt Lake Collaborative wins journalism partnership award

09-14-2023 by Nicole Spearman

KSL.com

The remarkable resilience of Utah's state crustacean

09-14-2023 by Robert Lawrence

Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Undeveloped Northpoint property southeast of Great Salt Lake. Courtesy SLC.gov

SLC Council addresses environmental justice issues of Northpoint development

09-07-2023 by Aimee Van Tatenhove

Salt Lake Tribune

New lithium company wants billions of gallons from Great Salt Lake, but says it will put it all back

09-07-2023 by Leia Larsen

Fox 13

Lawsuit filed against Utah demanding action to save the Great Salt Lake

09-07-2023 by Ben Winslow

Salt Lake Tribune

Groups sue Utah, trying to save Great Salt Lake with the public trust doctrine

09-07-2023 by Leia Larsen

Fox 13

Salt Lake City Council considers a new plan for Northpoint

09-07-2023 by Ben Winslow

KSL NewsRadio

Several golf courses in Salt Lake City have switched to more drought-resistant types of grass along portions of the courses. (Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities)

Drought-resistant grass now at some Salt Lake City golf courses

09-01-2023 by Heather Kelly

Axios Salt Lake

Yes, it's safe to swim in the Great Salt Lake

09-01-2023 by Erin Alberty

Fox 13

Brine shrimp forecast for Great Salt Lake looks good, state officials say

08-24-2023 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

Environmental experiments on Utah Lake could lead to solutions to restore it

08-24-2023 by Ben Winslow

KSL NewsRadio

FILE: Water levels are pictured in the Great Salt Lake on Thursday, July 20, 2023. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)

Utah lawmakers plan to reevaluate water rights held by mineral companies on the Great Salt Lake

08-24-2023 by Adam Small

Fox 13

As the Great Salt Lake declines and toxic dust events increase with intensity, they will disproportionately affect residents of Tooele County and the west side of Salt Lake City, according to a recent NASA study.

Some Utahns at higher risk of exposure to toxic dust from Great Salt Lake, study finds

08-24-2023 by Jenna Bree

Axios Salt Lake

"We're not going to be silent": How Great Salt Lake dust could impact west siders

08-23-2023 by Kim Bojórquez

Fox 13

Utah legislature to re-examine mineral extraction on Great Salt Lake

08-23-2023 by Ben Winslow

Salt Lake Tribune

Why do so many inland port projects include Great Salt Lake wetlands?

08-18-2023 by Leia Larsen

KSL.com

'A terrible idea': Groups worry new inland port will harm Great Salt Lake refuge

08-17-2023 by Carter Williams

Fox 13

Environmentalists say inland port site threatens Great Salt Lake

08-17-2023 by Ben Winslow

KUER

A plane flies into Salt Lake City International Airport as an inversion settles into the valley, diminishing the air quality in February 2022. Many west-siders, who suffer the most from air pollution, don't know how to plead their case to decision-makers.

Salt Lake City west-siders dealing with bad air are disconnected from their politicians

08-17-2023 by Saige Miller and Alixel Cabrera

Fox 13

New Great Salt Lake commissioner warns of 'tough choices' ahead to save the lake

08-17-2023 by Ben Winslow

Deseret News

The west end of the Behrens Trench of Compass Minerals is seen on Oct. 18, 2016. The trench moves brine from the west pond complex to the east pond complex of Compass Minerals.

Lawmaker says Great Salt Lake mining operation is like ‘wild wild West’

08-17-2023 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Salt Lake Tribune

Mining company responds to concerns about its plans at Great Salt Lake, but lawmakers aren’t happy

08-17-2023 by Leia Larsen

Salt Lake Tribune

Compass Minerals makes big claims about Great Salt Lake lithium but lacks state approvals

08-17-2023 by Leia Larsen

Fox 13

State scrutinizing company over lithium extraction from Great Salt Lake

08-17-2023 by Ben Winslow

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