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The state is trying to bridge the gap in its monitoring network, a state environmental scientist said, but it is "exceedingly ...
Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz has an idea to mitigate the dust blowing into communities from the drying Great Salt Lake.
Toxic dust from the drying Great Salt Lake is a threat to Utah's health and future. State regulators and lawmakers must ...
The state is still trying to bridge the gap in its monitoring network, as satellite measurements have come up with inaccurate ...
The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster with health and economic effects far beyond Utah’s borders ...
A new University of Utah study warns that a dried Great Salt Lake bed and toxic dust storms could bring huge business losses ...
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.
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 ...
Dust storms and air pollution ... majority of Utah's 3.3 million population who live near the lake. The Great Salt Lake’s levels have rebounded slightly in recent years due to the last two ...
Using the Great Salt Lake in Utah as a case study, researchers show that dust exposure was highest among Pacific Islanders and Hispanic people and lower in white people compared to all other ...