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How the Great Salt Lake lakebed could contribute to pollution, other issues

Low water levels are pictured in the Great Salt Lake near Tooele County on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. (Kristin Murphy/Deseret News)
LOGAN, Utah — Two Ph.D. students from Utah State University are trying to measure the dust blowing off the Great Salt Lake and learn how it contributes to pollution and air quality along the Wasatch Front. Pollution in the drying Great Salt Lake...
April 18, 2022

Great Salt Lake sinking levels could impact bird migration

Birds use the Farmington Bay Area as one of several migratory areas for birds at the Great Salt Lake on Feb. 2, 2022. (Carter Williams/KSL)
Salt Lake While it all sounds like an apocalypse waiting to happen, especially when you factor in the possibility of toxic dust and worsening air quality, Luft is really encouraged by the steps lawmakers took during the legislative session aimed at...
April 13, 2022

‘Embrace the salt’ — A kayaker’s quest to share up-close views of an ‘epic’ but shriveling Great Salt Lake

Brian Footen paddles his kayak along the Great Salt Lake near the Spiral Jetty, just south of the Rozel Point peninsula on the northeastern shore, March 25, 2022. | Leah Hogsten, The Salt Lake Tribune
For Brian Footen, it will be the biggest and most challenging destination in a project to create Google Street View-style maps of drought-stricken waters and shores across the West. Spiral Jetty • Brian Footen waded out from the soupy red water of the...
April 10, 2022

Is it too late to save the diminishing Great Salt Lake?

The Great Salt Lake as seen on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Advocates, researchers and others are concerned about the future of the lake. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Advocates, researchers and others intimately acquainted with the Great Salt Lake have watched with dread over the last two decades as it has steadily dwindled to a trickle of its former self. Its ailing condition has been as glaring as its receding...
March 6, 2022

Utah National Guard will fly lawmakers over the Great Salt Lake to see how far it's shrunk

impacts from drought, climate change and water diversion. A shrinking lake could lead to changes in Utah's snowpack and toxic dust storms that will impact the Wasatch Front. House Speaker Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, has been involved in efforts to save...
February 14, 2022

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