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Saving the Great Salt Lake is 'top priority,' Utah's new natural resources boss says
08-26-2022 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — Saving the Great Salt Lake will be his "top priority" in office, the new head of Utah's Department of Natural Resources sa...
Can mimicking beavers help save the Great Salt Lake?
08-26-2022 by Jacob Klopfenstein
About five years ago, Willy Stockman’s home on the bank of Emigration Creek became a wildlife hot spot. In the summers of 2017 and 2018,...
RadioACTive 08.24.22 Measuring GSL water
08-24-2022 by Lara Jones
Tonight's show featured the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community! Listen here...
This grass can save Salt Lake City residents water and money in Utah's drought
08-23-2022 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — The grass in the small park on the corner of Concord Street and California Avenue looks and feels just like any other lawn...
Here’s how the Great Saltair became a relic
08-22-2022 by Palak Jayswal
The site of the old Saltair resort — actually, three of them — can give a visitor the feeling that something is haunting them. The histori...
The Rise and fall of the Great Saltair: The search for Utah’s lost world class lakefront resort
08-22-2022 by Dan Spindle
SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah — The Great Salt Lake has fascinated the world for centuries. From the nomadic peoples of our pre-history living alon...
Utah can’t save or stretch its precious water if it can’t super accurately measure it
08-22-2022 by Saige Miller KUER
As the Western megadrought stretches on, conservation, rate hikes or tearing out turf may not be enough. There’s still a thirsty population,...
'We've got to find answers and then take the action,' Romney says of Great Salt Lake
08-18-2022 by Ben Winslow
FARMINGTON BAY, Utah — As the airboats moved through the marshes, hundreds of birds took flight. Senator Mitt Romney marveled at them...
What Sen. Mitt Romney, House Speaker Brad Wilson saw on the Great Salt Lake
08-18-2022 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
To save the Great Salt Lake, its complex ecosystem and its value to the state of Utah and the West, one has to know the Great Salt Lake. T...
Why counting shorebirds may fill a missing piece in the Great Salt Lake conservation puzzle
08-18-2022 by Jacob Klopfenstein
TIMPIE SPRINGS, Tooele County — Off of I-80 in Tooele County and past a mountain of salt from a nearby Cargill plant is Timpie Springs Water...
Weber Basin study: Secondary water meters drive down consumption
08-15-2022 by Mark Shenefelt
The Weber Basin Water Conservancy District is trying to gauge whether secondary water meters installed at homes are having a significant imp...
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Flyover of Great Salt Lake underscores the environmental challenges it faces
08-10-2022 by Aimee Van Tatenhove
An environmental nonprofit is offering Utahns a new perspective on the challenges facing Great Salt Lake, by giving them a bird's eye view o...
Microbialites also tell the story of the Great Salt Lake’s worrisome decline
08-09-2022 by Tim Vandenack
OGDEN — It’s not just the declining water level. Some of the rocky structures in the Great Salt Lake — microbialites — are also telling t...
New online one-stop-shop for all things Great Salt Lake
08-09-2022 by Sheri Quinn
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...
SLCo Council urges action to save the Great Salt Lake
08-09-2022 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake County Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution calling for action to save the Great Salt Lake...
'Dust Lake City' disaster looming as Utah professor fights to save the Great Salt Lake
08-09-2022 by Dan Spindle
FARMINGTON BAY — If you only view the Great Salt Lake from above, you'll miss the greatest threat to the air we breathe here in northern Uta...
Utah agriculture wants more support and research to reach future water-saving goals
08-08-2022 by Saige Miller KUER
The Utah Legislature, the federal government and community members are all weighing in on how best to address the ongoing drought, but all e...
Compass Minerals in talks with Ford, LG Energy to supply lithium products
08-07-2022 by Tim Vandenack
Compass Minerals is in talks with Ford Motor Co. and LG Energy Solution to supply the manufacturing giants with a key ingredient needed in t...
Flights over Great Salt Lake highlight need for action
08-05-2022 by Mythili Gubbi
SALT LAKE CITY — It's no secret that the Great Salt Lake is shrinking at an alarming rate, hitting yet another historic low in July, but a n...
Last boats pulled from the Great Salt Lake marina
08-03-2022 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — The last boats have been pulled from the Great Salt Lake Marina. FOX 13 News documented cranes lifting the remaining boa...
New irrigation research and tech helps Utah farmers produce food and save water
08-03-2022 by Sheri Quinn
Matt Yost is a Utah State University professor in Plants, Soils & Climate and USU Extension specialist. He knows farming first-hand. He grew...
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