To meet a statewide conservation goal of 16%, the decade-long effort aims to reduce the water used in homes, schools and businesses. Individual targets were set for each county to make it happen. Farm irrigation isn’t part of it — there are other ways to ...

New work from Scott Hotaling with Eric Gilbertson, used satellite data, laser measurements and historical photographs to document the ways ice-capped summits in the Western United States are being impacted by climate change.

Rising ocean temperatures, heatwaves and dwindling prey are forcing marine mammals into new and more dangerous waters, scientists warn.

SALT LAKE CITY — Researchers at Utah State University just completed a joint study with the Utah Division of Water Rights to better understand surface water movement and measurement near Great Salt Lake.

Microscopic pieces of plastic are turning up in Earth’s water, soil and air. They are everywhere.A new article in the journal Nature highlights the global scope of this problem and features the research of Janice Brahney. Microplastics are altering the wa...

Carbon emissions from plastics production are no surprise. But when plastic turns to dust, it also affects how the planet absorbs carbon from the air, on land and in the oceans.

You can’t escape it, dust is everywhere. It covers Utah communities with a fine layer of grit. It gets whipped in the wind to snow-covered peaks where it absorbs heat and melts the snowpack. It settles onto rivers and reservoirs and peppers farm fields. I...

LOGAN, Utah - Four years ago, the fates were well aligned for Izzy Wappett to choose a major in the Quinney College of Natural Resources (QCNR). She’d been warming up for outdoor adventure by climbing the cliffs of Logan Canyon and running rivers like the...

It takes an armada of sentries to keep contaminants out of your drinking water. When storms stir up sediments and push them downstream, water managers have to be ready to shut off one source of water and pivot to others. This creates major inefficiencies ...

Despite the name, it’s actually rust-and-cream colored water that flows between the banks of the Green River in southeastern Utah. As a flotilla of canoes meanders down the narrow sandstone stretches and around the gooseneck bends of Labyrinth Canyon, eve...