Microplastics are an urgent issue in the Great Lakes. Learn what’s causing them, how it affects health and what you can do.

Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz has an idea to mitigate the dust blowing into communities from the drying Great Salt Lake.

Toxic dust from the drying Great Salt Lake is a threat to Utah's health and future. State regulators and lawmakers must ...

Leia Larsen is a reporter at. She spent a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining the intersection of ...

A spokesperson for the agency confirmed on Wednesday that the state of Utah still has, on paper, the right to use 86,000 acre ...

She spent a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining the intersection of politics and environmental issues. Three years ago, when the Great Salt Lake was at its lowest levels ...

The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster ... examined the intersection of politics and environmental issues as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship.

To help shape what that will look like, UIPA brought in Joel Ferry, director of Utah’s Department of Natural Resources and an influential leader on Great Salt Lake issues, as a non-voting board ...

The level of the Great Salt Lake in Utah reached a record low in 2022 ... The reduction in the lake's volume poses ecological and economic issues for Utah—but also public-health concerns ...

Five percent of the Great Salt Lake playa is fine particulate matter that can enter the lungs and cause a range of pulmonary problems, and particularly troublesome, the scientists say, is the ...

New research from the University of Utah demonstrates how wind-carried dust from the exposed bed of Great Salt Lake is disproportionately ... linked to myriad health problems, including ...