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Utah’s Great Salt Lake could disappear within the next five years.

The company pushing a controversial proposal to dredge Utah Lake and build islands on it has filed a lawsuit against the state, challenging its rejection of their permit application for the project.

The largest saline lake in North America is on track to collapse within five years, a new report finds

According to a newly published report, the Great Salt Lake could disappear in the next five years. Today we’ll talk with two of the report’s authors: Benjamin Abbott, Assistant Professor in the Plant and Wildlife Sciences Department at Brigham Young University, and Bonnie Baxter, Professor and Chair of Biology and Director of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College.

Scientists say excessive water use is to blame, with 74% of diverted lakewater being used for unsustainable agricultural practices. Utah's Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, could be set to disappear within the...

The lake will disappear in five years if water consumption isn't cut almost in half in the next two years.

Scientists say excessive water use is to blame, with 74% of diverted lakewater being used for unsustainable agricultural practices

Decades of overconsumption of water throughout the region, and a mega-drought made worse by climate change, threaten to further shrink the lake.

(CNN) — The Great Salt Lake in Utah is facing “unprecedented danger,” experts say, as it has fallen to an alarmingly low level amid a climate change-fueled megadrought that’s tightening its grip in the West. Less than two weeks away from Utah’s 2023 legislative session, nearly three dozen scientists and conservationists released a dire report […]

Dozens of scientists warned in a new report that Utahs Great Salt Lake will disappear in five years as water levels have dropped by 73 percent, which has left 60 percent of the lakebed exposed.