A few months after experts shockingly predicted the Great Salt Lake could dry up within five years, Mother Nature dropped an unexpected reprieve: The biggest Utah snowpack in recorded history ...

Report details lake's importance The Great Salt Lake lies along a crucial flyway, attracting an estimated 10 million birds a year. Roughly 350 bird species depend on its ecosystems.

In fall 2022, the Great Salt Lake hit its lowest water level since record keeping began. The lake’s elevation sank to nearly six meters below the long-term average.

The lake may not command the center of recreational attention the way it used to, he says, but it has slowly come back — as have a variety of ways to enjoy the lake. The Great Salt Lake State ...

It’s hard to imagine: Utah’s Great Salt Lake, once a shimmering inland sea almost as large as Delaware, is shrinking at a staggering pace. Where water once stretched to the horizon, bone-dry ...

Without dramatic cuts to water consumption, Utah's Great Salt Lake is on track to disappear within five years, a dire new report warns, imperiling ecosystems and exposing millions of people to ...

Cracked mud is seen on the dry lakebed of Owens Lake in Inyo County, California, on Wednesday, Aug. 10. (Photo: Spenser Heaps, Deseret News) "We know a lot already.

The only permanent solution to addressing the budding public health crisis caused by Great Salt Lake dust events is reducing human water consumption in the watershed and maintaining the lake at a ...

The lake typically hits its low point around the transition to a new water year, Deputy Great Salt Lake Commissioner Tim ...

The Great Salt Lake, according to industry experts, is the world's single largest source of brine shrimp, which supports an estimated 10 million metric tons of seafood.

As Great Salt Lake lay dying, ... ended up becoming a Superfund site and one of the largest sources of dust pollution in the United States. Great Salt Lake is more than 10 times bigger than Owens ...

The Great Salt Lake is now only 30 feet deep at its deepest point. In the 1980s, the lake's surface area reached 3,300 square miles, ... reports the United States Geological Society in a ...