The state is trying to bridge the gap in its monitoring network, a state environmental scientist said, but it is "exceedingly difficult" to set up new stations.

Read all of our stories at greatsaltlakenews.org. It’s easy to see dust blowing off the Great Salt Lake, but experts and data say it isn’t as easy to connect the drying lake’s water level to ...

Great Salt Lake will likely have a tough summer. The saline lake relies on mountain snow melt to fill it with water, ...

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 ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake Commissioner, tasked with coming up with a plan to save the shrinking lake, has created a priority list to tackle dust blowing off an exposed lakebed.

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 ...

exposed by receding waters at the Great Salt Lake, on Sept. 28, 2022, near Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) (CN) — Toxic dust from drying inland lakes combined with climate change and a ...

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 ...

New research from the University of Utah demonstrates how wind-carried dust from the exposed bed of Great Salt Lake is disproportionately affecting disadvantaged communities in the Salt Lake metro ...