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When Will We Know if it's the Toxic Dust?
Which dust is in the air this spring? Is it the toxic dust from the Great Salt Lake yet? How will we know? Ali asks Logan Mitchell, a climate scientist who is very good at explaining things. Listen to the 14 minute episode here.
June 9, 2022
Utah lawmakers consider a pipeline from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Salt Lake
diversion, development, drought and climate change. A dried-up lake presents a massive environmental crisis for Utah with toxic dust storms (there is arsenic in the lake bed), a lack ofsnowpack and billions of dollars in lost economic impact to the...
May 17, 2022
How much air pollution is already happening?
Question by Barbara Larson, Washington, Utah Increased air pollution as the lake bed dries is a top concern among people who have responded to the Great Salt Lake Collaborative’s audience survey. And it’s a subject of ongoing study by the University of...
April 28, 2022
Utah political leaders pressured to move quickly to save Great Salt Lake
a looming environmental and economic catastrophe. There's reduced economic benefit from the lake itself, the threat of toxic dust storms in populated areas of the state, a reduced snowpack that impacts the area's climate and causes harm to the lucrative...
April 28, 2022
A century of human activity is coming back as toxic dust as the Great Salt Lake shrinks
as it's moving through communities. It can change composition before it's deposited in the mountains. PM: Why is more toxic dust being released now? MB: The longer that the lakebed is exposed, the more time the protective crust has to weather down and...
April 27, 2022
Can this tweak to Utah vehicle law help reduce toxic Great Salt Lake dust?
SALT LAKE CITY — Motorized vehicles are banned from traveling on exposed lakebeds and navigable rivers in Utah, but a problem emerged in recent years with the way it's written in state law. It wasn't completely clear to anyone what types of vehicles...
April 21, 2022
How the Great Salt Lake lakebed could contribute to pollution, other issues
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
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
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?
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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