The Salt Lake Tribune

What will it take to save the Great Salt Lake by the 2034 Winter Olympics? It depends on whom you ask.

Gov. Spencer Cox recently stood on the edge of Farmington Bay, surrounded by some of Utah’s most wealthy and powerful people. He announced a goal — get the Great Salt Lake to a healthy level by 2034.
KSL

5 lessons learned about the Great Salt Lake in 2025 outlined in new report

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 about ...
Phys.org

The 8,000-year history recorded in Great Salt Lake sediments

Over the past 8,000 years, Utah's Great Salt Lake has been sensitive to changes in climate and water inflow. Now, new sediment isotope data indicate that human activity over the past 200 years has ...
Los Angeles Times

Can Utah’s governor actually save the Great Salt Lake?

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The governor of Utah has a problem. The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, and a dry lakebed threatens to send ...
The Washington Post

As the Great Salt Lake dries up, clouds of dangerous dust blow into boomtowns

GREAT SALT LAKE, Utah — Kevin Perry was standing on the parched lake bed when the wind started to pick up. He squinted across a cracked, gray expanse of earth, submerged 16 feet underwater just five ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Not just farms: New report shows where water from the shrinking Great Salt Lake is going

Note to readers •This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Despite the Great Salt Lake’s dire straits, ...