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Opinion: The dust we breathe — Utah’s urgent wake-up call from the Great Salt Lake
Toxic dust from the drying Great Salt Lake is a threat to Utah's health and future. State regulators and lawmakers must ...
Great Salt Lake dust isn’t being measured accurately. Here’s what the state is doing about it.
The state is trying to bridge the gap in its monitoring network, a state environmental scientist said, but it is "exceedingly ...
How scientists manage the Great Salt Lake’s wetlands, one of the most prolific mosquito habitats in the West
The wetlands of the Great Salt Lake produce millions of mosquitoes each year. Scientists use a wide range of techniques to ...
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‘This was water’ art exhibit presents Utah without Great Salt Lake
A new interactive art exhibit about the environmental crisis around the Great Salt Lake by local artists Kellie Bornhoft and ...
How a collapsing Great Salt Lake could take Utah’s economy — and maybe your employer — down with it
A new University of Utah study warns that a dried Great Salt Lake bed and toxic dust storms could bring huge business losses ...
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USU research could yield solutions for getting water to the Great Salt Lake
Cutler Dam is the last dam on the Bear River before the Great Salt Lake. It was a perfect spot for farmers, political officials, and researchers at an event hosted by USUs Water Research Laboratory ...
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The Nature Conservancy teaches children to 'become stewards' of Great Salt Lake
The Nature Conservancy led fourth graders from Layton's Adams Elementary on a tour of the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve ...
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Will Mormons Save the Great Salt Lake?
Knowing those gains will be erased without better water management, she wants to help save the Great Salt Lake by incentivizing urban and rural water conservation through more aggressive ...
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The Great Salt Lake Is Drying. Can Utah Save It?
A recent year of record snow replenished mountain streams and reservoirs, allowing more water to flow to the Great Salt Lake. It currently is five feet higher than its all-time low, but it will ...
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Opinion: The dust we breathe — Utah’s urgent wake-up call from the Great Salt Lake
The low Great Salt Lake water levels can be seen from Antelope Island looking back at the Wasatch Front on Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. | Steve Griffin, Deseret News 33,623 people played the daily ...
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Collapsing Great Salt Lake could take Utah’s economy down with it
Yet altering the lake’s future by restoring ample water levels to fend off an ecological-turned-economic disaster, he said, remains well within reach. “The Great Salt Lake,” Daniels said ...