This simulated 3D view of the Great Salt Lake is based on satellite data collected on July 9, 2022. Much of the lighter colored land around the lake once was covered with water. See below for a ...

The Salt Lake Tribune joined a flight over the Great Salt Lake on a six-seater plane Tuesday morning. Here’s what we saw.

A team of geologists drilled through strange formations dotting the Great Salt Lake's drying playa, and were surprised by what they found.

As the spring runoff is about to get underway, a small nonprofit is giving Utah officials, scientists and reporters a valuable perspective on the Great Salt Lake: a bird’s-eye view.

A weather satellite captured an image of a dust plume from Farmington Bay blowing into the Salt Lake City area on January 20, 2025. The Great Salt Lake hit a record low water level in 2022 as a ...

SALT LAKE CITY — This season’s record snowpack means good news for the Great Salt Lake. It has already risen a few feet, and the runoff has barely just started. “Definitely a sigh of relief ...

It’s hard to imagine: Utah’s Great Salt Lake, once a shimmering inland sea almost as large as Delaware, is shrinking at a staggering pace. Where water once stretched to the horizon, bone-dry ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Great Salt Lake in Utah is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere.But in recent decades its lost 73% of its water and the lake is in uncharted territory.

The European Space Agency shared a new satellite look at Utah's Great Salt Lake this week, and it shows just how much the famous body of water has diminished. The July 2022 view comes from ESA's ...

Aerial photographs of Compass Minerals, center, and Great Salt Lake Minerals, left, in Ogden, April 11, 2022. Compass Minerals produces salt, plant nutrients and magnesium chloride for application ...

Fremont Island, the Great Salt Lake’s third-largest island, on July 18, is about 2 miles wide and 6 miles long, with about 3,000 acres to explore.