The Great Salt Lake appears to have started its annual winter gains early after a rainy October, but it faces an uncertain ...

The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is examining the dire effects of the drought on ...

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.

A new report prepared by the Utah State Legislature's Auditor General identified what he believes are the top 10 biggest ...

The shrinking and potential disappearance of the Great Salt Lake is one of the most important environmental issues and public ...

Utah's Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western hemisphere. Due to climate change, the lake's very existence—and the ecosystems that depend on it—is at risk of disappearing.

GREAT SALT LAKE, Utah - Kevin Perry was standing on the parched lakebed when the wind started to pick up. He squinted across acracked, gray expanse of earth, submerged 16 feet underwater just five ...

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 ...

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 ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake is the largest wetland ecosystem in the U.S. West, as well as the largest salt lake in the whole Western Hemisphere and the eighth largest in the world. Best known for its ...

The seven states that make up the Colorado River basin are facing a Tuesday decision with the federal government on a commitment to draw down on water use on a river in crisis.