Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz has an idea to mitigate the dust blowing into communities from the drying Great Salt Lake.

Leia Larsen is a reporter at. She spent a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining the intersection of ...

Microplastics are an urgent issue in the Great Lakes. Learn what’s causing them, how it affects health and what you can do.

"There’s several places across the Great Salt Lake that we can use the implementation of berms to back water up into the areas where there’s problems with dust," Speaker Mike Schultz ...

The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster ... examined the intersection of politics and environmental issues as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship.

She spent a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining the intersection of politics and environmental issues. Three years ago, when the Great Salt Lake was at its lowest levels ...

Toxic dust from the drying Great Salt Lake is a threat to Utah's health and future. State regulators and lawmakers must ...

But that was below the $650,000 that the Office of the Great Salt Lake requested to help the Utah Division of Air Quality compile an analysis of dust issues by the lake. Brian Steed, Utah's Great ...

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 ...

Great Salt Lake's dust threatens air quality in Utah ... State officials have become more aggressive about addressing dust issues. But some complain about a lack of action from Utah's Capitol ...

Many of the comments touched on issues ... said Salt Lake County Councilwoman Aimee Winder Newton. "At some point, we're going to have to rebuild our Salt Palace, and this is a great mechanism ...

Last Saturday’s storm started near Bloomington, Illinois, before traveling northeastward. It was the first such storm of this ...