Scientists have identified a previously unknown microscopic roundworm living in Utah's Great Salt Lake. Nematode, formally ...

One of America’s most unique ecological landmarks is disappearing. The Great Salt Lake, once the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere, sticks out on maps of the United States as a large spot ...

Note to readers • Leia Larsen is a reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune. She spent a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining the intersection of politics and environmental issues.

Retreating water levels are exposing stretches of cracked, arsenic-laden lakebed in Utah. Future dust storms will carry an extra hazard. People wade in the waters of the Great Salt Lake at Antelope ...

Only a few years ago, if you popped open a can of soda anywhere in the United States, the container you held more likely than ...

As the search for solutions to the shrinking Great Salt Lake continues, researchers at Utah State University opened up conversations with the biggest water users in the state: farmers. Among the ...

Environmental advocates and artists continue to hope a pint-sized bird will force bold and swift action to save the Great Salt Lake. Community organizers, along with famed writer Terry Tempest ...

One of America’s most unique ecological landmarks is disappearing. The Great Salt Lake, once the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere, sticks out on maps of the United States as a large spot ...

The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster with health and economic effects far beyond Utah’s borders. The state is taking action, but critics say it’s not doing enough.