Environment
Most Recent
St. George officials asking for info on illegally felled tree at golf course
Mori Kessler, St. George News | Posted Sept. 18 - 9:27 p.m. | Save Story
A dead tree on city property that was originally set to be replaced this fall was removed ahead of schedule by an unknown party. And city officials are not pleased.
Utah Legislature votes to join lawsuit on federal lands
Amy Joi O'Donoghue, Deseret News | Posted Sept. 18 - 9:29 a.m. | Save Story
The state Legislature's Management Committee voted Tuesday to file a friend of the court brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Utah Attorney General's lawsuit filed in August over 18.5 million acres of "unappropriated" public lands under federal ownership.
Utah ranks No. 2 in country with solar jobs
Amy Joi O'Donoghue, Deseret News | Posted Sept. 18 - 8:01 a.m. | Save Story
U.S. solar jobs grew 6% overall for a total of nearly 280,000 solar workers as of 2023, as part of the accelerating transition to clean, renewable energy that is sparking job opportunities across all 50 states.
After losing over 2 feet, Great Salt Lake to get another boost from Utah Lake
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted Sept. 16 - 8:57 p.m. | Save Story
The Great Salt Lake has lost about 2 feet over the past few months, but it's about to get another boost from Utah Lake.
Utah's mountains likely to see first snow of the season with latest storm
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted Sept. 16 - 7:06 p.m. | Save Story
Snow is expected to return to Utah's highest elevations this week, while the state will also feel more like early to mid-October and less like the final week of summer.
3 years after pause, Salt Lake City closer to resuming foothills trail expansion plans
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted Sept. 16 - 8:05 a.m. | Save Story
A plan to build more trails across Salt Lake City's foothills hit a snag in 2021 after issues with the first 15 months, but it may resume as early as next year.
A group of women come together through rafting Western rivers
Erin Lewis and Sheri Quinn, Utah Public Radio | Posted Sept. 15 - 7:01 p.m. | Save Story
A group of women have come together each year for decades to raft western rivers.
Here's what U. researchers are learning about dangers associated with Great Salt Lake dust
Logan Stefanich, KSL.com | Posted Sept. 15 - 4:50 p.m. | Save Story
New University of Utah research has found that sediments in the Great Salt Lake's exposed playa are potentially more harmful than other major dust sources.
$250K project slated to protect south-central Utah's 'trembling giant'
Alysha Lundgren, St. George News | Posted Sept. 14 - 9:17 a.m. | Save Story
A new tree project is in the works, and advocates say it could allow the "trembling giant" to begin regenerating.
New leases for oil, gas plummet under Biden-Harris. Will the future hold more of the same?
Amy Joi O'Donoghue, Deseret News | Posted Sept. 13 - 9:33 p.m. | Save Story
In 2019, when Kamala Harris was campaigning to be the Democratic U.S. presidential nominee, she vowed she would stop fracking as a means to extract fossil fuel from the land.
Canyons School District phases out community recycling program after inappropriate use
Brianna Chavez, KSL-TV | Posted Sept. 13 - 10:58 a.m. | Save Story
The Canyons School District is reevaluating its community recycling program after people have been throwing in items that don't belong, like garbage, furniture and dead animals.
Francine weakens and moves inland after lashing Louisiana
Jack Brook and Sara Cline, Associated Press | Updated Sept. 12 - 5:58 p.m. | Save Story
Francine is weakening after striking Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane. The system knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses.
3 Utah school districts awarded $1.49M to purchase clean school buses
Logan Stefanich, KSL.com | Posted Sept. 10 - 5:03 p.m. | Save Story
Three Utah school districts have been awarded $1.49 million in rebates to purchase clean school buses as part of the Biden administration's Investing in America agenda.
Utah posts second-hottest summer on record, but August rains left positive impact
Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted Sept. 10 - 3:02 p.m. | Save Story
Utah endured its second-hottest summer on record, but August storms may have helped reduce the impact of drought on the state, according to newly released climate data.
How are Utah's reservoirs doing as summer winds down?
Amy Joi O'Donoghue, Deseret News | Posted Sept. 10 - 10:09 a.m. | Save Story
Statewide reservoir storage across Utah remains at an average of 77% capacity, an overall 6% decline from last month.
National Park rangers call out 'world-changing' impact of dropped Cheetos bag
Marnie Hunter, CNN | Posted Sept. 9 - 10:06 p.m. | Save Story
Plain water is the only thing visitors are allowed to consume inside the huge cavern at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico. Cheetos are a no-go, and the recent park visitor who dropped a bag full of them created a "huge impact" on the cave's ecosystem, park rangers said Friday in a Facebook post.
Thousands evacuate as wildfires rage outside Los Angeles and Reno, Nevada
Eugene Garcia and Olga R. Rodriguez, Associated Press | Posted Sept. 9 - 6:02 p.m. | Save Story
Thousands of people have been evacuated from the path of a scorching wildfire in the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles as the blaze threatens some 36,000 structures.
Aquamation now an option offered to Utah pet owners
Brianna Chavez, KSL-TV | Posted Sept. 8 - 10:44 p.m. | Save Story
Aquamation is a water-based cremation, that some say makes the painful process of saying goodbye for pet owners just a little easier.
