Denise Gutzmer<p>Great Salt Lake slipping back into ‘scary low’ water levels</p><p>Drought and water consumption were causing the level of the Great Salt Lake to fall to alarmingly low levels. On Tuesday, July 29, the lake level was near 4,192 feet, while the north arm was about 4,191.5 feet. </p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a></p><p><a href="https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/07/29/great-salt-lake-levels-scary-low-drought/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/07/2</span><span class="invisible">9/great-salt-lake-levels-scary-low-drought/</span></a></p>
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Katrina Katrinka :donor:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:wjatbj4hiinxfqaeixaw2bcp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>realtuckfrumper.bsky.social</span></a></span> <br>Um... no. There's a lot of talk, but very little action, unless you count the Governor, a rich alfalfa farmer, asking everyone to pray for more water. These mandatory actions won't do anything to fix the problem. </p><p>The problem is that we live in a desert, our legislature is full of real estate developers, and unbridled growth, especially in real estate and data centers is their focus. </p><p>The best source for <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a> news is the collaborative here: <a href="https://greatsaltlakenews.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">greatsaltlakenews.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
earthling<p>The End, 2025<br>In his series Alfredo Jaar documents the Great Salt Lake, Utah, which is being destroyed by excessive water extraction and has become what scientists have described as an ‘environmental nuclear bomb’. A keystone ecosystem for the western hemisphere, sustaining rainfall and providing a habitat for 10 million migratory birds, it has lost 73% of its water ...</p><p>Photograph: Alfredo Jarr </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/photography" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>photography</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a></p>
Europe<p>Survey shows Utahns support environmental protections, think politicians could do more</p><p>This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education…<br><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a><br><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2241781/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2241781/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Environment<p>Survey shows Utahns support environmental protections, think politicians could do more</p><p>This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education…<br><a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a><br><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2241781/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2241781/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
flug<p>Heron at the Farmington Bay Bird Refuge, Great Salt Lake, Utah (January 2021)</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/bird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bird</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/heron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heron</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/birdsofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birdsofmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/naturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>naturephotography</span></a> #2021</p>
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Dust^2<p>Work from Cluster member Kevin Perry, based at the University of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a>, is part of these efforts by the Great Salt Lake Strike Team to understand, prepare for, and mitigate the effects of the shrinking <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a>. </p><p>"The strike team brings together experts in public policy, hydrology, water management, climatology, dust and economics to provide impartial, data-informed and solution-oriented support for the Commissioner’s Office and other Utah decision-makers."</p><p>📖🔗: <a href="https://bit.ly/41JXRx9" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/41JXRx9</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
RashaKamel<p>"The Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, reached historic low levels in 2022, raising economic, ecological and public health concerns for Utah".<br><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/greatsaltlake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greatsaltlake</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-great-salt-lake.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-01-great-sa</span><span class="invisible">lt-lake.html</span></a></p>
M Sandersarterial—Antelope Island, UT (2022)<br>
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M Sandersrough road—Antelope Island, UT (2022)<br>
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M Sandersincoming—Great Salt Lake, UT (2022)<br>
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M Sandersrange—Great Salt Lake, UT (2022)<br>
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Ben Winslow<p>Thanks to $$$ from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, new stream gauges being installed will help to answer a very important question about the Great Salt Lake: <a href="https://www.fox13now.com/news/great-salt-lake-collaborative/new-stream-gauges-to-help-track-if-conserved-water-really-makes-it-to-great-salt-lake" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fox13now.com/news/great-salt-l</span><span class="invisible">ake-collaborative/new-stream-gauges-to-help-track-if-conserved-water-really-makes-it-to-great-salt-lake</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/utpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>utpol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a></p>
technicat<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wre-rapps.utah.gov/GSLApp/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wre-rapps.utah.gov/GSLApp/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance!<p>Why We're in Court to Protect the <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a> - <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/Earthjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Earthjustice</span></a><br><a href="https://veganism.social/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://earthjustice.org/article/saving-utahs-great-salt-lake-to-ward-off-an-ecological-collapse-and-public-health-disaster?sourceid=1047094&safelist=y&emci=7fe3a0b0-d47a-ef11-991a-6045bdee6681&emdi=36bd820c-587b-ef11-991a-6045bdee6681&ceid=320203" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">earthjustice.org/article/savin</span><span class="invisible">g-utahs-great-salt-lake-to-ward-off-an-ecological-collapse-and-public-health-disaster?sourceid=1047094&safelist=y&emci=7fe3a0b0-d47a-ef11-991a-6045bdee6681&emdi=36bd820c-587b-ef11-991a-6045bdee6681&ceid=320203</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Enhancement of OVA-induced murine lung eosinophilia by co-exposure to contamination levels of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LPS</span></a> in Asian sand <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dust</span></a> and heated dust</p><p>Yahao Ren, et al.<br>Published: 2014 Jun 9</p><p>"A previous study has shown that the aggravation of Asian sand dust (ASD) on ovalbumin (OVA)-induced lung eosinphilia was more severe in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-rich ASD than in SiO2-rich ASD. Therefore, the effects of different LPS contamination levels in ASD on the aggravation of OVA-induced lung eosinophilia were investigated in the present study.</p><p>Conclusions:</p><p>"This study demonstrates that LPS contamination in ASD aggravates allergic lung inflammation in the presence of OVA and H-ASD. The aggravation of the allergic lung inflammation by LPS may be caused through the TLR4-dependent signaling pathway. The results of the current study indicate that the exposure to ASD with LPS may be a significant risk factor for adult and child <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/asthma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asthma</span></a>. The hazardous effects of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MineralDust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MineralDust</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biogenic</span></a> agents on human respiratory disease are an increasing public concern. Atmospheric exposure to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a>, fungi and virus, and silica-carrying particulate matters may influence human respiratory health on a world-wide scale."</p><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058696/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/</span><span class="invisible">PMC4058696/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DryingLakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DryingLakes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AgriculturalPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgriculturalPollution</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fertilizers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fertilizers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Phosphorus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Phosphorus</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaltonSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaltonSea</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanHealth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MonoLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MonoLake</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AralSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AralSea</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaltonSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaltonSea</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LungDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LungDisease</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>At the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Salton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Salton</span></a> Sea, Uncovering the Culprit of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LungDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LungDisease</span></a></p><p>Researchers may have found a cause for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/asthma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asthma</span></a>-like symptoms in the region. The discovery could have <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/global" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>global</span></a> implications.</p><p>"The scientists are eager to see if the mice demonstrate a similar disease profile with Great Salt Lake dust. If they do, according to Yisrael, it could potentially have global implications. She points to areas like the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AralSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AralSea</span></a>, on the border of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kazakhstan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kazakhstan</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Uzbekistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Uzbekistan</span></a>, as well as lake systems closer to home, like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MonoLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MonoLake</span></a>, in central California. 'All of these areas globally are drying up, and around these areas are communities which complain of severe asthma-like symptoms'"</p><p>By Fletcher Reveley<br>08.19.2024</p><p>"When David Lo first visited the Salton Sea shore in the spring of 2018, he was struck by the sheer oddness of the place: the beach of barnacle shells and pulverized fish bones; the abandoned dock far from the water’s edge; the unremitting smell of decay. It was like a scene from a science fiction movie, recalled the 66-year-old biomedical researcher from University of California, Riverside, familiar yet “just off of normal.”</p><p>But it was also pleasant, in a way. The sun glistened off the placid surface of the water, the Chocolate Mountains rose in the distance. At first, he said, 'all those odd parts don’t hit you in terms of potential, like ‘Oh my gosh this is a toxic, nasty sort of thing.' But for him that’s changed, he added, 'having learned more about what’s going on.'</p><p>"The Salton Sea is a 316-square mile, shallow glaze of water in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthernCalifornia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernCalifornia</span></a> that has been receding in recent years. Scientists believe the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicDust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicDust</span></a> kicked up from the exposed lakebed is contributing to respiratory disease in the region.</p><p>"Now, after nearly a decade of research, Lo recommends that anyone visiting the lake wear an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/N95" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>N95</span></a> mask. Something in the environment — in the water, the land, the air, or all three — appears to be making people in the region sick with a respiratory disease that presents like asthma. Children have been especially impacted; in some areas more than a quarter of kids have been diagnosed with asthma, more than four times the national childhood <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/asthma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asthma</span></a> rate. Even more children, whether they have been diagnosed or not, display asthma-like symptoms — more than a third of kids in certain areas. And although residents of the area have long believed the Salton Sea to be toxic, Lo and other researchers at UC Riverside are only now beginning to zero in on a culprit. And it’s one that nobody expected."</p><p>[...] </p><p>"For Lo and the other researchers, however, the results were remarkable for a different reason — the geographic distribution of the asthma symptoms seemed to map closely onto the geographic distribution of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LPS</span></a>. The southern end of the lake was also the main entry point for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AgriculturalRunoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgriculturalRunoff</span></a>, which is laced with nutrients and feeds explosive biological activity. 'All these things are coming together,' said Lo. “The nutrients driving the bacterial growth, driving the toxin getting into the dust, driving the symptoms.' Lo recalled that at one meeting this year of the Salton Sea Task Force, a multidisciplinary group of UC Riverside scientists that studies the Salton Sea, the findings of the various threads of research began to converge: 'That was the meeting where everybody was, you know their jaws were dropping, like ‘Oh my gosh, it’s all fitting into place.’'"</p><p>[...]</p><p>"Near the end of May this year, Lo hosted a forum at UC Riverside on the health effects of dust and other particles that can be suspended in air. Many of the presenters were graduate students or faculty from various labs at UC Riverside that study the Salton Sea, but one of the keynote speakers, Molly Blakowski, had flown in from a different state entirely. Blakowski studies the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, and her invitation to the event reflected a growing concern among the UC Riverside investigators: What if this toxic LPS is not unique to the Salton Sea?</p><p>"In a recent interview with Undark, Blakowski drew parallels between the Salton Sea and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a> — both are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hypersaline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypersaline</span></a>, terminal lakes that are rapidly shrinking; both contain areas where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nutrients" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nutrients</span></a> from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/agricultural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>agricultural</span></a> activity enter and impact the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/microbiome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microbiome</span></a>. Another similarity, she said, is that there are major knowledge gaps regarding the lake and its impact on human health." [NOT JUST HUMAN HEALTH!!!]</p><p><a href="https://undark.org/2024/08/19/salton-sea-uncovering-lung-disease/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">undark.org/2024/08/19/salton-s</span><span class="invisible">ea-uncovering-lung-disease/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AgriculturalPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgriculturalPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fertilizers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fertilizers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Phosphorus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Phosphorus</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaltonSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaltonSea</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonAllergicAsthma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonAllergicAsthma</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanHealth</span></a></p>
Dust^2<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a>'s declining water levels have far-reaching effects, including dust storms that accelerate snowmelt in the nearby Wasatch Mountains. This early snowmelt threatens water availability in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a>.</p><p>Read more in "The shrinking Great Salt Lake contributes to record high dust-on-snow deposition in the Wasatch Mountains during the 2022 snowmelt season" from members of the Dust^2 Cluster. </p><p>🔗📖: <a href="https://bit.ly/46YUk0v" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/46YUk0v</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalZone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalZone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a></p>
Dragofix<p>Great Salt Lake Is Releasing Millions of Tons of Carbon Emissions, Study Finds</p><p>"New research has revealed that as the lake bed of the Great Salt Lake dries out, it’s becoming a greater source of greenhouse gas emissions." <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatSaltLake</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carbon</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emissions</span></a> <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/great-salt-lake-carbon-emissions.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ecowatch.com/great-salt-lake-c</span><span class="invisible">arbon-emissions.html</span></a></p>
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