Last November, the Great Salt Lake, iconic landmark of the Great Basin Desert, fell to its lowest surface elevation ever recorded. The lake had lost 73% of its water and 60% of its area. More than ...

On a recent flight home to Salt Lake City, I gazed out the window and shuddered. The ground below was riddled with cracks. Sporadic green pools dotted the dry earth where vast water had once been.

For these lake protectors, Mono’s health is dependent on the entire ecosystem — from the crest of the Sierra Nevada to the pine forest to the high desert and terminal lake at the bottom, along ...

But deserts are dynamic and desert lakes fragile, none more so than Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Emblematic of the West’s Great Basin, the Great Salt Lake has no outlet.

I’m a lake person born in the Great Lakes region, land of Hiawatha’s “shining big sea waters”. Fishing, hunting, swimming, ...

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 ...

As the Great Salt Lake dries up, dust can land on the state’s snowpack in the mountains, causing the snow to absorb more sunlight and melt faster.This, in turn, means more water becomes absorbed ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Drive west of this sprawling high desert city, ... Even since its water levels peaked in the 1980s, the Great Salt Lake has always had this mysterious vibe.

During the last glacial era, 15,000 years ago, Lake Bonneville, Great Salt Lake’s freshwater predecessor, covered 20,000 square miles of western Utah and parts of Nevada and Idaho, an area ...

Utah lawmakers are hearing calls to protect the Great Salt Lake ... the legislature put millions of dollars toward conservation and some incentives for alfalfa farmers upstream of the desert lake ...

The agency's data indicates that the Great Salt Lake topped out at about 4,194.1 feet elevation in mid-June this year, as Utah's record 30-inch snowpack — some of which was shepherded into the ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake. It’s the largest Salt Lake in the western hemisphere. But it’s drying up, fast. In the 1980s, the lake covered more than 3,000 square miles.