The Salt Lake Tribune analyzed dozens of water rights applications submitted in the two years following a moratorium on most new appropriations within the Great Salt Lake Basin. Here's what we found.

The Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, reached historic low levels in 2022, raising economic, ecological and public health concerns for Utah.

The study is the first peer-reviewed effort to quantitatively assess the contributing factors behind Great Salt Lake's record ...

A worrying study published last month in Environmental Challenges claims that nearly two-thirds of the Great Salt Lake’s shrinkage is attributable to human use of river water that otherwise ...

The origins of this whale of a tale date back to an article first published in the late 1800s by a Canadian newspaper.

While the decline has been widely attributed to low stream flows into the lake, the real story is more nuanced, a study ...

Since November, more than 15,000 wild birds have died along the shore of the Great Salt Lake from avian influenza (or bird flu), according to state officials.

We all use water and rely on the Great Salt Lake, so we are all in this together. Instead of pitting the lake against agriculture, here's how we can work together to find mutually beneficial solutions ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people ...

A new study finds the biggest factors behind Great Salt Lake shrinking is reduced stream flow from the Bear, Weber, and ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people ...