ResilienceUtah Reps/Flickr/https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake: ‘Trying to avert disaster’ Environmental and community groups have filed lawsuit as the water body shrinks from overuse, hastening its demise.
Impacts Photo by Brent Pace on Unsplash Terry Tempest Williams: I am haunted by what I have seen at Great Salt Lake Evaporation from heat and drought accelerated by climate change, combined with overuse of the rivers that feed it, have shrunk the lake’s area by two-thirds.
Impactswww.flickr.com Podcast: Utah’s ‘environmental nuclear bomb’ As the Great Salt Lake dries up, toxic dust threatens to poison the air in one of the United States’ fastest-growing metro areas.
Top Storycommons.wikimedia.org As the Great Salt Lake dries up, Utah faces ‘an environmental nuclear bomb’ Climate change and rapid population growth are shrinking the lake, creating a bowl of toxic dust that could poison the air around Salt Lake City.
