Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed House Bill 137 into law March 17, according to the legislature’s website. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives on February 17 and the state Senate on March ...

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The shoreline of Utah’s Great Salt Lake frames an otherworldly body of water, from pastel pink to deep marine blue. In the fall, its surface transforms with slicks of gold — made from millions of ...

Learn about the brine shrimp of the Great Salt Lake and the threats these creatures face. Brine shrimping is a multi-million-dollar industry dedicated to supplying fish food for aquaculture. The brine ...

The tiny critters are found around the world — in Utah they're in the Great Salt Lake. Brine shrimp provide food for fish and commercially grown shrimp — a multi-million dollar industry in Utah. Good ...

If two’s company and three’s a crowd, the Great Salt Lake is getting crowded after scientists discovered a species of nematode, known also as a roundworm, making it just the third multicellular animal ...

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Microbial life has been discovered sealed in a brine lake beneath 65 feet of Antarctic ice after spending nearly 3,000 years isolated from external energy sources ...

We often describe the stillness and quiet of the desert as timeless. But deserts are dynamic and desert lakes fragile, none more so than Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Emblematic of the West’s Great Basin, ...

Harvesting brine shrimp cysts from Great Salt Lake, Utah. A male brine shrimp uses large claspers to grasp a female for mating. In October of 1951, a letter appeared in The Aquarium, a magazine for ...