Scientists studying the Great Salt Lake have long described it as a place defined by salt and little else, so expectations ...

The view of Great Salt Lake's North Arm from Gunnison Island, which has long served as a nesting ground for pelicans. Over the past 8,000 years, Utah’s Great Salt Lake has been sensitive to changes in ...

Scientists found that Great Salt Lake’s chemistry and water balance were stable for thousands of years, until human settlement. Irrigation and farming in the 1800s and a railroad causeway in 1959 ...

It was the deadliest massacre of indigenous people in U.S. history. But today, many still don’t know the story. It was 1863, on an icy January morning, at dawn. Hundreds of members of the Northwestern ...

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