This pink color comes from millions of halobacterium that live in the lake and transmit the pigments in their cells through the water. Since the Great Salt Lake has no outlet, salt brought into ...

The pink appearance of the North Arm of the Great Salt Lake looks quite different from the typical blue-green water seen near the Marina. Parrott says this difference started when the lake was ...

Water only leaves the Great Salt Lake lake through evaporation, ... Pink water in the Great Salt Lake's north arm as seen near the Spiral Jetty, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021.

Great Salt Lake is up over 3 feet — but it has a long way to go to healthy ... It has become so hypersaline few creatures survive other than salt-loving microorganisms that turn the water pink.

These bacteria are responsible for turning other bodies of water pink, including the Great Salt Lake’s North Arm in Utah. This area of the lake was separated from the South Arm in the 1950s with ...

On the playa: Where there was once water in abundance, there is now just the dry, cracked, exposed lake bed. (DeAgostini / Getty Images) This article appears in the September 4/11, 2023 issue ...