After historic snowfall over the winter, Utahns are breathing a sigh of relief about the Great Salt Lake. But they'd better ...
When clouds of dust roll into Salt Lake City, they can make the air toxic. The Great Salt Lake is used for recreation, natural resource extraction, and brine shrimp fishing, a multimillion-dollar ...
A disappearing Great Salt Lake could poison the lungs of more than ... the terminal lake was dry and producing billowing clouds of fine, toxic dust which became known as “Keeler fog” after ...
Once exposed, the bed of the Great Salt Lake could cause arsenic — a classic poison that's toxic and carcinogenic ... meaning that just the dust in the air can cause respiratory problems.
New Great Salt Lake commissioner warns people may revert back to practices that helped drain the Great Salt Lake over the ...
Brian Steed, executive director of the Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah State University, met with members of the ...
Dust from the dry lake bed of the Great Salt Lake did deposit at Atwater Study Plot. The majority of the dust from the April 13-14 dust event, however, blew north of the site, suggesting that the ...
SALT LAKE CITY — State leaders ... Alarmed by the lake's decline and the potential for reduced snowpack, increased toxic dust storms and impacts to public health and wildlife, the Utah State ...
to save brine shrimp and the Great Salt Lake? Maurine: It’s really important to think about the environment. If the lake dries up, it could blow toxic dust into our air in Salt Lake City.
“We had dust being kicked up across the Great Salt Lake,” Mallia said ... to do right now is figure out exactly what kind of toxic compounds are in PM 10 and create a database we can ...
The Great Salt Lake Strike Team's report found that between 67% and 73% of the lake's water is lost to "natural and human consumptive use." In addition, some of the lake's toxic dust is still ...
“We had dust being kicked up across the Great Salt Lake,” Mallia said ... to do right now is figure out exactly what kind of toxic compounds are in PM 10 and create a database we can ...
