Dr Bonnie Baxter, a biology professor at Westminster College in Utah, is fighting to save the state’s iconic Great Salt Lake from drying up (Adam Finkle/ajfphoto.com) Some things are so precious, so ...

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. By 2021, it covered barely 950 ...

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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — One of Deeda Seed's favorite spots to hike is a trail above her neighborhood that snakes up the steep Wasatch Mountains for an amazing view of Salt Lake City. But on a recent ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Drive west of this sprawling high desert city, past its newly built international airport, through a series of locked gates into the Audubon's Gillmor Sanctuary and it's like ...

The Great Salt Lake isn't too great these days. It's drying up, in part because of water diversions to farmers upstream. Environmentalists will ask a Utah court today to force mandatory water cuts.

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 it does ...