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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...

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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...

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(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

'Celebrating small wins;' Great Salt Lake rises a foot since historic low

01-18-2023 by Jeff Tavvs

Salt Lake Tribune

Scientists sounded the alarm about the Great Salt Lake. Are lawmakers listening?

01-18-2023 by Leia Larsen

Fox 13

Will Utahns get paid more green for their grass?

01-15-2023 by Ben Winslow

KSL-TV

Great Salt Lake tour showcases the shrinking lake and what is being uncovered

01-14-2023 by Alex Cabrero

Fox 13

'On my watch we are not allowing the lake to go dry,' Utah's governor says of Great Salt Lake

01-13-2023 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

Researchers, environmental groups call for 'emergency rescue' of Great Salt Lake

01-11-2023 by Ben Winslow

Utah Public Radio (UPR)

Shorebird population health tied to saline lakes across western hemisphere

01-08-2023 by Aimee Van Tatenhove

Salt Lake Tribune

Great Salt Lake set to vanish in 5 years, experts warn Utah lawmakers

01-05-2023 by Leia Larsen

Salt Lake Tribune

Dear Legislature: Here’s what you can do in 2023 to save the Great Salt Lake

01-03-2023 by Sofia Jeremias and Leia Larsen

Salt Lake Tribune

Utah DEQ denies US Magnesium’s request to extend water canals deeper into the Great Salt Lake

12-29-2022 by Leia Larsen

KUER

‘Mother Earth cries’ but hope remains for the Great Salt Lake, says poet

12-29-2022 by Ciara Hulet

KUER

Utah author pens a tale of parental anxiety that parallels a drying Great Salt Lake

12-28-2022 by Pamela McCall

KSL.com

The Great Salt Lake wetlands near Corinne, Box Elder County, on July 13. Congress passed a bill Monday that helps fund studies of saline lakes in Great Basin states, like the Great Salt Lake, over the next five years. It's up to President Joe Biden to sign it. (Ben B. Braun, Deseret News)

Bill that sets up federal funding for studies of the Great Salt Lake heads to Biden's desk

12-27-2022 by Carter Williams

Salt Lake Tribune

Will December’s big storms make a difference for the Great Salt Lake?

12-23-2022 by Leia Larsen

KSL.com

What's the value in new funding for studies on the Great Salt Lake, other saline lakes?

12-19-2022 by Carter Williams

KUER

Utah’s population boom could further strain its limited water

12-18-2022 by Saige Miller KUER

Fox 13

Reports call for more water saving measures and help for the Great Salt Lake

12-15-2022 by Ben Winslow

Salt Lake Tribune

One crop uses more than half of Utah’s water. Here’s why.

12-15-2022 by Brian Maffly and Mark Eddington

Salt Lake Tribune

‘We must do whatever is necessary’: Mitt Romney’s bill funding study of Great Salt Lake sails through Senate

12-08-2022 by Leia Larsen

KSL.com

Why Utah is updating its answers to common questions about the Great Salt Lake

12-07-2022 by Carter Williams

The Globe

U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, Utah State Rep. Joel Ferry and Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson tour the Great Salt Lake by fan boat, Aug. 19, 2022. (Spenser Heaps, Deseret News)

Lake questions: Does greater salinity lead to more evaporation in the Salt Lake?

12-07-2022 by McCaulee Blackburn

Fox 13

Emergency water releases going into the Great Salt Lake

12-07-2022 by Ben Winslow

KUER

Will time run out on Romney’s bill to fund research to save the Great Salt Lake?

12-06-2022 by Saige Miller KUER

Salt Lake Tribune

The Great Salt Lake’s most important source of water has a troubled history. But there is hope its future may be better.

12-06-2022 by Leia Larsen

Fox 13

Utah looks to expand cloud seeding to help with drought, Great Salt Lake

12-06-2022 by Ben Winslow

The Globe

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Lake questions: Can we bring water from the ocean to the Salt Lake?

12-02-2022 by McCaulee Blackburn

Fox 13

Bill upending how Utahns pay for water gets dammed up in the legislature

12-02-2022 by Ben Winslow

Fox 13

To help the Great Salt Lake, Utah may pay farmers to not grow crops

11-28-2022 by Ben Winslow

KSL-TV

Antelope Island on life support due to shrinking Great Salt Lake, experts say

11-28-2022 by Dan Spindle

Salt Lake Tribune

Gov. Cox put new water rights on hold. Will it actually help the Great Salt Lake?

11-28-2022 by Leia Larsen

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