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A gauge used to measure lake levels stands on a dry, sandy lake bed
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A Fuller Great Salt Lake Would Likely Narrow an Environmental Health Gap

by Grace van Deelen 1 October 20241 October 2024

Pacific Islander and Hispanic residents of Salt Lake City would benefit most from higher lake levels and reduced dust pollution.

A closeup photo of a layer of biocrust, a thin layer separated from the soil underneath by about an inch
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The Dirt on Biocrusts: Why Scientists Are Working to Save Earth’s Living Skin

by Jude Coleman 23 September 20242 October 2024

Think twice before stepping on that crunchy top layer of soil. It may be a vital ecosystem—one that you can help protect.

Map of Paradox Basin with symbols
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Faults Along Salt Walls Are Less Stressed in the Paradox Basin

by Birgit Müller 22 July 202422 July 2024

Based on an extended stress database, scientists observe systematic changes in the tectonic stress state and a reduction in fault reactivation potential near salt walls in the Paradox Basin.

Satellite photo of the Great Salt Lake
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The Size of the Great Salt Lake Affects Storm Precipitation

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 16 July 202416 July 2024

Utah’s most famous body of water is shrinking, and storms might deliver less precipitation than normal if that trend continues.

Two people stand in an area covered in rock mounds, with puddled water in the foreground and a low rocky hill in the background. The image is annotated with a date, location, and blue and green lines identifying, respectively, several of the mounds and three elevations on the hill.
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Snapping Science in the Field

by Sabrina Kainz and Andrea Halling 11 March 202423 May 2024

Snapchat, the multimedia messaging app, offers a range of features that make it an unexpectedly useful tool for geoscientists on the go.

Fog settles in between mountain peaks at sunset.
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Cold Fog Is Capricious, but Not for Long

by Grace van Deelen 13 February 202413 February 2024

New observations of cold fog formation could eventually improve forecasting.

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Climate Change Narrows the Window for Prescribed Fires

by Caroline Hasler 16 November 202316 November 2023

Longer, drier summers may mean fewer opportunities for firefighters to safely burn would-be wildfire fuel in the western United States.

Google Street View image of the landslide at LaVerkin Bench in Utah.
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LaVerkin Bench: damaging landslides in Utah

by Dave Petley 31 October 202331 October 2023

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In the city of LaVerkin in Utah, USA, a series of damaging landslides are destroying houses. The slope failures are occurring on a steep bluff on the edge of the city on […]

Brown dust darkens large areas of snow.
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Dust Is Melting Snow—And Current Models Can’t Keep Up

by Kara West 25 October 20231 May 2024

Mountain snowpack melts quicker when coated in dust. This cyclical problem is forcing water forecasts to evolve.

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Tracking Human CO2 Emissions from Medium-Sized Cities

by Bo Zheng 28 June 202327 June 2023

Atmospheric inverse models, combined with observations, successfully tracked modest CO2 emission reductions in Salt Lake City during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.

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