The Great Salt Lake is on the brink of collapsing, as shown by a recent study. The toxic dust is just one of many issues created by its drought.

Climate change, agribusiness, and mining interests are choking the Great Salt Lake. Activists say Utah's state legislature ...

California's Owens Lake is the nation's largest source of PM10, the tiny pollutants found in dust and smoke, while plumes blowing off the 800 square miles of the Great Salt Lake’s exposed bed ...

It travels further still: dust from the Great Salt Lake has been found from Southern Utah to Wyoming. When toxic dust reaches us, we breathe it in. So do our kids. There’s no doubt that air pollution ...

Amid historic drought, birds began showing up in greater numbers at The Nature Conservancy’s Shorelands Preserve, which ...

The Great Salt Lake is facing unprecedented danger according to a new report conducted by BYU students and faculty in ...

A declining lake presents an environmental catastrophe for Utah with reduced snowpack, toxic dust storms and impacts to public health, wildlife and the economy. Lawmakers are expected to spend upwards ...

Utah’s Great Salt ... of toxic minerals, particularly high levels of arsenic, left behind by many years of mining. Right now, the minerals are safely trapped at the bottom of the lake.

This year’s legislative session will be critical in bringing the Great Salt ... source of dust. Nate Blouin, the newly elected Democratic senator representing parts of Salt Lake County, said ...

With dozens of bills coming in the Utah State Legislature dealing with water, a small group of lawmakers have formed a special caucus focused on helping the Great Salt Lake.

The Great Salt Lake is drying up, and its impact to the environment and economy could be major.

For the Great Salt Lake, it might be now ... “Are we willing to accept the lake is not going to be productive? That we’re going to have dust storms and an ecosystem not thriving and in collapse?