"Utah residents threatened by toxic dust from Great Salt Lake," and "windy conditions have led to dust advisories," a Fox News headline said Wednesday. The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world, and "lies i...
The challenges are acute and existential for both the lake and for us. As summarized in a 2023 report led by Brigham Young University [7], the lake has become so small that toxic dust is blowing from the exposed lakebed, so dry that wildlife habitats are vanishing, and so salty that ...