How can we save the Great Salt Lake? Explore emerging research and the search for solutions. The shrinking shorelines of the Great Salt Lake have exposed a huge community problem: Dust storms that ...

The expense would come from tamping down the dust from the dried lake bed, which contains heavy metals, PFAS and other chemicals.

Massive walls of dust and debris called haboobs that roll through the Southwest U.S. can be awe-inspiring and terrifying, especially for motorists caught in their path. Thunderstorms spawn the ...

Residents of Utah, especially ones living around the Great Salt Lake, are acutely vulnerable to the harmful effects of dust pollution, a new study found. Scientists were already well aware that Salt ...

PHOENIX — A powerful storm kicked up a towering wall of dust that rolled through metro Phoenix, darkening the sky, blinding drivers, knocking out power and grounding flights at one of the nation’s ...

Sarah Lynch Baldwin is a deputy managing editor of CBSNews.com. She helps lead national and breaking news coverage and shapes editorial workflows. A massive wall of dust — called a haboob — hit the ...