The Salt Lake Tribune

Who will feed the world if the Great Salt Lake collapses?

South Aral Sea, Uzbekistan • As the rising sun casts golden rays over the Aral Sea, a group of Uzbek fishermen wearing sweatshirts and knit caps gathered on a chilly beach to discuss the day’s plan.
Los Angeles Times

The Great Salt Lake is disappearing. Utah has 45 days to save it

We often describe the stillness and quiet of the desert as timeless. But deserts are dynamic and desert lakes fragile, none more so than Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Emblematic of the West’s Great Basin, ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Great Salt Lake managers raise causeway berm in effort to stave off rising salinity

The Great Salt Lake is so dry, and its water so salty, that resource managers have partially closed a breach in a railroad causeway to stem the flow of hypersaline water between the north and south ...
Napa Valley Register

Fishermen pay big bucks to harvest brine shrimp from Great Salt Lake

SALT LAKE CITY — In a landlocked state 600 miles from the nearest ocean, fleets of commercial fishermen compete for a creature that in spite of its minuscule size makes for quite a fish tale. Brine ...