
As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces an ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’
Climate change and rapid population growth are shrinking the lake, creating a bowl of toxic dust that could poison the air around Salt Lake City.
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Utah's Great Salt Lake is drying out, threatening ecological, economic disaster
Utah's Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded level this month amid a two-decade drought, a grim milestone as researchers and politicians point to grave threats to wildlife and people along its receding shores.
Yet another disaster unfolding out in the Southwest to keep an eye on. I made another thread about Lake Mead a while back. This is something to be concerned about. Climate change fueled drought has caused the lake to drop to it lowest level in recorded history. Unfortunately it is exposing a lakebed laced with arsenic, sulphur, calcium and contaminated residue. This could pose a terrifying health crisis for millions of people.