Lawyers for Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, American Bird Conservancy, Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra ...
as a solemn reminder of what could happen if the Great Salt Lake dried up. Communities around the lake are dealing with all sorts of problems with dust coming off its dried lakebed. Dust lingers ...
The Great Salt Lake generates around 15 dust events a year, according to reporting by The Salt Lake Tribune. Spring and summer are becoming more unhealthy, and dust from the exposed lakebed could ...
More dry lakebed getting exposed could send arsenic-laced dust into the air that millions breathe. “A lot us have been talking about the lake as flatlining,” said Lynn de Freitas, executive director ...
The Great Salt Lake is on the verge of collapse ... As the lake’s surface area shrinks, toxic dust formerly trapped on the lakebed is exposed and causes significant air pollution.
A shrinking Great Salt Lake presents an ecological catastrophe for Utah with toxic dust storms, reduced snowpack and harms to public health and wildlife. It got this way over years of water ...
"Utah residents threatened by toxic dust from Great Salt Lake," and "windy conditions have led to dust advisories," a Fox News headline said Wednesday. The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater ...
SALT LAKE CITY—To complete a nonstop 4,000-mile flight, Wilson’s phalarope needs fuel. The tiny inland shorebird famed for its reversed gender roles often finds that food in the Great Salt Lake.
Its decline sparked public alarm with an exposed lake bed whipping up toxic dust (arsenic is among the naturally occurring chemicals in the Great Salt Lake), reduced snowpack and other impacts to ...