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 ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before.

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.

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 ...

The Great Salt Lake Watershed Enhancement Trust has laid the foundation for Utahns to save the Great Salt Lake, but we still ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake is a place of extremes, and its ecosystem is evidence that life can thrive under some of Earth’s most hostile conditions. Scientists say it may hold clues for life on other ...

On a recent flight home to Salt Lake City, I gazed out the window and shuddered. The ground below was riddled with cracks. Sporadic green pools dotted the dry earth where vast water had once been. I ...

Brent Davis thinks he grows the tastiest tomatoes. For four generations, his family has farmed and ranched near the eastern shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, 45 minutes north of Salt Lake City. He ...

The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster with health and economic effects far beyond Utah’s borders. The state is taking action, but critics say it’s not doing enough.