Great Salt Lake’s dust problem is exacerbated by hot and dry weather conditions. And right now, things are not looking good ...

The only permanent solution to addressing the budding public health crisis caused by Great Salt Lake dust events is to reduce ...

director of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. “We know about dust storms, we know about particulate pollution, we know about heavy metals and how they ...

In late January, a weather satellite captured a stream of dust lifting off the Great Salt Lake near Farmington Bay and drifting southeast toward Salt Lake City. The satellite imagery shows a ...

Read all of our stories at greatsaltlakenews.org. ST. GEORGE, Utah — Mitigating dust from a shrinking Great Salt Lake could cost more than a billion dollars to fix, a new report from the Utah ...

Since he published the results from the Great Salt Lake Dust Plume Study in 2019, he’s been averaging two interviews a week. He was the first in his family to go to college; his father had been ...

Toxic dust from the drying lakebed ultimately became one of the first alarms that captivated researchers, though. The Great Salt Lake contains arsenic and other metals that are naturally occurring ...

Another source of dust may seem insignificant, but along the Wasatch Front, where two-thirds of the state's population lives, the Great Salt Lake has the potential to add more hazardous ...

But dust blowing from Utah’s Great Salt Lake could pack an extra unwanted punch. Metals in the dust and sediment from around Great Salt Lake are more reactive than dust from nearby lake beds ...

She shared those images with FOX 13 News and described seeing dust blowing off of the Rio Tinto Kennecott tailings pile and the Great Salt Lake playa. "To experience being caught up in a dust ...

As Utah's Great Salt Lake shrinks, exposing more of its playa, concerns grow about the dust the dry lakebed emits. But scientists lack the data to fully understand what pollutants are present in ...

When wind kicks up toxic dust from the dry lakebed of the shrinking Great Salt Lake, it has an outsized impact on disadvantaged communities along the Wasatch Front, according to research from ...