On a recent flight home to Salt Lake City, I gazed out the window and shuddered. The ground below was riddled with cracks.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

While stakeholders have largely praised the effort, at least one air quality expert wondered why the state’s plan seems to be ...

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 ...

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.

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.