Pelican nesting has resumed on Utah's Hat and Gunnison Islands, toxic dust from the Great Salt Lake is being addressed, and heavy snowfall has improved the state's water outlook.
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Conservation groups funded to help diffuse Utah’s environmental bomb
The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, with about two-thirds of it gone. The loss of water and dry lake bed, which is a source of toxic dust, and has been characterized as "an environmental nuclear bomb"...
Water levels at the Great Salt Lake continue to drop, and some Utah lawmakers are considering desperate measures such as piping salt water from the Pacific Ocean into the lake.