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The january 6th committee's major finding and what's next for the investigation. next here tonight, utah's great salt lake is under threat. officials sounding the alarm about climate change and the worsening drought pushing it to the brink of an ecological crisis, impacting wildlife and people. abc's kayna whitworth from utah tonight. >> reporter: tonight, high temperatures and record-breaking western drought has utah's great salt lake inching toward ecological disaster. nothing flows out of the terminal lake, including toxic particulates both naturally occurring and from decades of mining i...

By John Lee. Iraq and Iran have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to help tackle the major dust storms that have afflicted the region. It was signed by the Head of Iran's Environment Department, Ali Salajegheh [Selajgeh], and Iraq's Minister for the Environment, Jasesim Al-Falahi [Jassim Abdel Aziz Hammadi] during a meeting in Tehran

>> reporter: 30 years ago, the great salt lake covered some 3,000 miles. now it covers less than 1,000. dust storms are becoming a major threat. scientists from the university of utah bike across the dry lake bed with instruments to measure how dangerous those dust storms could be. >> the dust that comes off the lake is very visual. you can see this wall of dust, and it reduces the visibility, and people are very concerned about what might be in the dust that they're breathing. >> reporter: kevin perry, a professor of atmospheric sciences, has discovered high levels of arsenic in the dust. >> ...

Dust Storms and Climate Change: A Crisis for the Iraqi Economy and the Need for Multilateral Solutions This paper highlights the relationship between drought and SDSs, the impact of these storms on Iraq's rentier economy, and the dangers such conditions represent to the region. The paper calls for multilateral cooperation among Iraq and its neighbors

The lake has already shrunk by two-thirds since the 1980s, and will have deadly human and environmental impacts if it disappears.