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Under the Great Salt Lake playa lies a potentially vast reservoir of pressurized freshwater that has accumulated over thousands of years from mountain-derived snowmelt, according to new research from University of Utah geoscientists.

Annual Strike Team report outlines new dust-mitigation strategies, successes in controlling salinity and fresh projections on lake's direction.

To understand how global warming could influence future climate, scientists look to the Paleogene Period that began 66 million years ago, covering a time when Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were two to four times higher than they are today.

The varied topography of the Western United States—a patchwork of valleys and mountains, basins and plateaus—results in minutely localized weather.

Kevin Perry, an Atmospheric Sciences Professor at the University of Utah, has mapped the entirety of the Great Salt Lake’s dust hotspots.