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Is it too late to save the diminishing Great Salt Lake?
03-06-2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Advocates, researchers and others intimately acquainted with the Great Salt Lake have watched with dread over the last two decades as it has...
RadioACTive with Bonnie Baxter, Great Salt Lake Institute director
03-02-2022 by Lara Jones
Great Salt Lake is getting saltier and other microbial tipping points of our namesake lake with Bonnie Baxter, Great Salt Lake Institute dir...
Reinvent Utah farms to save our soil and Great Salt Lake?
02-25-2022 by Luke Peterson
A Utah soil conference offered sustainable alternatives to traditional farming This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commi...
RadioACTive with Jaimi Butler of Great Salt Lake Institute
02-23-2022 by Lara Jones
Emerson Elementary students testify before lawmakers in support of a bill to make brine shrimp the official Utah State Crustacean, and more!...
An Antelope Island vigil raises awareness for the Great Salt Lake
02-22-2022 by Aimee Van Tatenhove
Drought and water diversions have been draining Great Salt Lake for decades, generating concern about the waterbody and its impacts on human...
Will a $40M trust save the Great Salt Lake? Lawmakers hope so
02-18-2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Utah legislative committee unanimously endorses measure A committee of Utah lawmakers on Friday unanimously approved a measure that would...
‘Pray for snow’ — Utah lawmakers tour the vanishing Great Salt Lake from the sky
02-16-2022 by Leia Larsen
“It’s worse than I thought,” says one as legislators vow to take action. About 10 million birds visit the Great Salt Lake every year, and...
Utah's snowpack reaching 2021 low levels
02-15-2022 by Max Roth
The overall snowpack level of 2022 so far is approaching that of the disappointing 2021 water year. Professor Robert Davies of Utah State...
Utah lawmakers get bird's-eye view of the shrinking Great Salt Lake
02-15-2022 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah National Guard dropped three Blackhawk helicopters on Capitol Hill to pick up lawmakers, taking them on an aerial...
‘It really hit home how bad it is’: Utah lawmakers get aerial tour of Great Salt Lake
02-15-2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Blackhawk tour highlights ‘shocking’ condition of lake A group of Utah legislators flew over the shrinking Great Salt Lake early Tuesday m...
A poet is keeping vigil at the Great Salt Lake during Utah’s legislative session
02-15-2022 by Emily Means
The salty, eggy stink of the Great Salt Lake smacks you right in the face on the drive to Antelope Island. Along the nearly seven-mile-lon...
Utah National Guard will fly lawmakers over the Great Salt Lake to see how far it's shrunk
02-14-2022 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah National Guard will fly dozens of lawmakers over the Great Salt Lake so they can see first-hand how far it has shr...
The State and Fate of the Great Salt Lake, Part III
02-03-2022 by Doug Fabrizio
Everybody seems to agree the Great Salt Lake is in dire straits. So, what can be done to help it? A lot of ideas have been proposed for ge...
A brine shrimp bid for Utah’s state crustacean
02-01-2022 by Aimee Van Tatenhove
Brine shrimp are an abundant crustacean in Great Salt Lake, providing a critical source of food for migratory birds, and brine shrimp eggs a...
Salt Lake middle schoolers are taking brine shrimp to a new level
02-01-2022 by Aimee Van Tatenhove
A group of Utahns are looking to get brine shrimp named as Utah’s state crustacean. The idea started with a student at Westminster College,...
Concern over Utah’s drought high, snowpack diminishing during dry spell
02-01-2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Forecast says Utah and the West look to remain in drought A new poll shows an overwhelming majority of Utah residents are concerned about...
The proposed plan to save the Great Salt Lake from drought
01-25-2022 by Kyle Dunphey
A new bill unveiled Tuesday would establish unprecedented guidelines for how Utah should respond to its shrinking Great Salt Lake. Lake Me...
What you need to know about water in Utah and why you should care
01-24-2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Management is complex in one of the nation’s driest states Utah’s use of water and the delivery systems that get the finite resource to th...
Saving the ‘otherworldly’ place of Utah’s declining inland sea
01-04-2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
First Great Salt Lake Summit strives for solutions Brad Wilson, a bunch of other folks and a dog named Max took to the waters of the Grea...
The State And Fate Of The Great Salt Lake, Part II
10-08-2021 by Doug Fabrizio
According to scientists who study it, the Great Salt Lake — the largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere — is drying up.The lake has...
Lake questions: How did the Great Salt Lake crisis happen?
09-14-2021 by McCaulee Blackburn
The Great Salt Lake Collaborative surveyed for audience questions about the lake, and The Globe is publishing experts’ answers to your quest...
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