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Utah has plans to build some of the largest inland islands in the world, but not all love the Utah Lake islands project.

There are few faster ways to my heart than a good Disney spoof. Oceano might be a little town, but it's far from a quiet...

In burned watersheds where the wildfire had consumed stabilizing vegetation and leaf litter, the rain had caused massive erosion. There was a 2,000-fold increase in sediment flux compared to unburned areas, creating a plume of ash and soil moving into Utah Lake that was visible from space.<br/>

A proposal suggests constructing man-made islands on Utah Lake, including more public beaches, campgrounds and cabins, and multiple styles of residential living.

Jake Holdaway gets emotional when he talks about Utah Lake and his ancestral ties to a place he describes as a spiritual calling, one that speaks to the very fiber of his being.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox explained his reasons behind asking for prayers during Utahs drought and pointed out what the state has already done to prepare for dry conditions.

Last modified on Tue 9 Mar 2021 18.26 EST Paolo Cherchi Usai – the Italian curator and former head of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) – once put forward an elegant definition of moving image preservation, calling it “the science of gradual loss and the art of coming to terms with its consequences”. Those melancholic words present the dispossession of our celluloid and digital pasts as inevitable, and efforts to maintain them a will-o’-the-wisp exercise: impossi...

The Daily Universe The snow falling on Utah’s mountains have been decreasing every year, creating a mega drought. (Preston Crawley) Environmental experts say Utah’s lack of snowfall could trigger a mega drought and is evidence of human-caused climate change. Utah has been very dry the past few years because of a lack of snow fall and snowpack, which is crucial for filling the reservoirs and supplying water to be used in agriculture. “It’s normal for one year to be wetter or drier t...

New research suggests slow but substantial greenhouse gas release from submarine permafrost In the far north, the swelling Arctic Ocean inundated vast swaths of coastal tundra and steppe ecosystems. Though the ocean water was only a few degrees above freezing, it started to thaw the permafrost beneath it, exposing billions of tons of organic matter to microbial breakdown. The decomposing organic matter began producing CO2 and CH4, two of the most important greenhouse gases. Though researchers h...

12-22-2020 By Earth.com staff writer Since the end of the last glacial period, subsea permafrost has been thawing beneath the Arctic Ocean. A new study led by PhD candidate Sara Sayedi and senior researcher Dr. Ben Abbott at Brigham Young University (BYU) estimates that this subsea permafrost region currently traps 60 billion tons of methane and 560 billion tons of organic carbon in sediment and soil, but the precise amounts of carbon remain highly uncertain. Wh...