Salt Lake City, Utah—Antelope Island ... to the string of suburbs north of the city by playa—the exposed, dry lake bed. Here, new housing developments, each near bright white churches and ...

Not only does the prospect of a dried lake bed menace one of the West’s cornerstone ... Scholars with the Wallace Stegner Center at the University of Utah‘s S.J. Quinney College of Law posit ...

Utah's famous Great Salt Lake may be pouring ... The researchers found that the dry lake bed emits large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere compared to the amount released by the lake's water ...

Scholars and conservationists released a briefing this week urging emergency water saving measures to prevent the looming collapse of Utah's Great ... than half the lake bed is exposed,” Abbott ...

Bekah Ashley with the Sierra Club's Utah Chapter places a gravestone marker on the dry lake bed of the Great Salt Lake on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Ashley joined dozens of Utah youth with Utah ...

Scientists say the West is as dry as it's been in 1,200 years ... Dust storms and air pollution, born out of a dried up lake bed, is also a major concern for Utah residents.

Utah's population is also booming ... casting an eerie orange glow over the distant mountains that ring the dry lake bed. It stretches for miles with just a few pools of water here or there.

"If the lake bed dries up, and we're having winds ... is not going to wipe out two decades of very, very, very dry climate here in Utah," said Brad Wilson, the Republican House Speaker.