Great Salt Lake

The demise of the Great Salt Lake and its potential impact on an 11-year-old girl is laid bare in an emotional short story written by playwright Elaine Jarvik.

The legislation allocates $25 million for the United States Geological Survey to monitor the Great Salt Lake, California’s Mono Lake, Oregon’s Lake Albert and other saline lakes.

A stone’s throw from modern day Wendover, Danger Cave is a time capsule into the lives of some of the earliest people to call Utah home.

In 2018, the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation purchased land in Southeastern Idaho. For decades it was used for farming. But that hid a much darker history. Now, there are efforts to restore the land.

The $28.4 billion proposed budget tackles some of the biggest issues facing Utah.

In a wide-ranging climate discussion, the Utah senator said he believes the private sector should lead the way in clean energy technology.

The Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Act has passed the Senate. Now the vote is in the House with a busy calendar and the approaching end of the 117th Congress.

A report from Utah State University shows that since 1950, Utah has experienced a decline in precipitation, higher temperatures and it saw more rain instead of snow.

Utah artist Vincent Mattina’s sound collage won a first place award in this year’s Alfred Lambourne Arts Program, an annual exhibition of artwork hosted by Friends of Great Salt Lake.

The Great Salt Lake is seeing an increase in salinity levels that is negatively affecting its ecosystems.

All in all, there are a lot more questions than there are answers right now. Especially about how Utah and the Great Salt Lake got into this situation.

Only 27% of the water used in Utah comes from the Colorado River, with the majority of the state’s water supply coming from other rivers that feed into the Great Salt Lake.