A Great Salt Lake Strike Team report released earlier this year found human and natural water consumption caused 73% of the lake’s current dire state, while climate change and natural variation ...

Utah's Great Salt Lake. Footen, who works for a company called Earthviews that creates maps of aquatic and terrestrial environments, noticed how much conditions have worsened. "So 30 years ago, we ...

This map shows every country that had a visitor who signed the Great Salt Lake State Park visitor log in 2024. (Photo: Great Salt Lake State Park) People from six of the world's seven continents ...

The water levels of Utah's Great Salt Lake have jumped up in recent months in the wake of the intense snow and rainfall across the U.S. West, but are still lower than usual due to the region's ...

I have known Great Salt Lake in flood and now in drought, between her highest level, at 4,211.8 feet in 1987, and her lowest, at 4,188.5 feet in 2022. Maps and newspapers call her the Great Salt ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake is the largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere. Since the 1980s, the lake has shrunk by two-thirds, and is projected to disappear entirely in the next five years. If ...

The Great Salt Lake in Utah is the largest body of water in the western hemisphere without an outlet to the sea. Its levels fluctuate naturally, but scientists say the record-low water levels the ...

The shrinking Great Salt Lake presents an economic (more than $2 billion a year, the report noted), ecological and public health crisis. It dropped to its lowest levels in 2022 attributed to ...

"Here at Great Salt Lake and Mono Lake, you have, you know, 99% of the North American population of eared grebes that use these two lakes," said Marcelle Shoop with the Audubon Society. Mono is ...