Despite the Great Salt Lake's dire straits, state researchers and elected leaders remain optimistic that Utah will become the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Dozens danced and sang and protested on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, demanding more action to save it. On Wednesday, a crowd gathered to support a pending lawsuit against the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake County Council passed a resolution supporting efforts to protect Great Salt Lake wetlands. The bipartisan resolution, pushed by Council Chair Dea Theodore and Council ...

Note to readers • Leia Larsen is a reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune. She spent a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining the intersection of politics and environmental issues.

The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, and new research published Tuesday reports that saving it requires reducing the amount of farmland that is irrigated in the region. In recent decades, climate change ...

Scientist Julie Jung set out on a hike along the Great Salt Lake to find nematodes. She ended up discovering a new species. Julie Jung moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, a few years ago, and while she was ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's capital city has — over the past two years — had enough water at the end of winter to give the Great Salt Lake a small boost through controlled releases from the reservoirs it ...