"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...
As Utah’s Great Salt Lake continues to shrink, revealing more of its dry lakebed, worries are mounting about the dust released from the exposed playa. However, scientists currently lack sufficient data to fully identify the pollutants present in these airborne particles. Researchers from the...
pollution in the Salt Lake Valley and Wasatch front during high wind events. There are ~ 2.5 M people residing in the Salt Lake valley and along the Wasatch front, and PM concentrations during dust events can temporarily exceed levels defined by the US-EPA and Utah Department of Air Qualit...
Toxic Load in North America 1998 1 million tonnes per year What are (or could be) the Human Health Effects of Toxics? 1. Proven 2. Speculative/unproven Public health Officials Concerned citizens ask questions about hazardous chemicals in their communities ...
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 the food web is collapsing. The consequences for human health, ecosystems, ...
State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China 2 Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, Chin...