SALT LAKE CITY — Saving the Great Salt Lake is Utah's chance at a "moonshot" — accomplishing something that has never been done before. A report released Thursday by the Property and Environment ...

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.

Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Great Salt Lake appears to have started its annual winter gains early after a rainy October, but the leader of the state agency tasked with its recovery says the lake is still ...

Farmington • Elected leaders, business executives and private philanthropists gathered Wednesday to announce a new pool of money and a message: Utah has not given up on saving the Great Salt Lake. The ...

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 ...

PROVO, Utah — Dr. Ben Abbott was out for a mountain bike ride when he saw the dust storm. He pulled out his phone and took video of Saturday's storm that blew into the Provo-Orem area. Buildings were ...

Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The dust blowing from the dry bed of the ...

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.

Utah biologists have characterized D. woaabi, the first of two nematode species recently discovered in the lake’s ...