Once spanning around 3,300 sq miles in the 1980s, the Great Salt Lake has shrunk to roughly 950 sq miles — losing more than two-thirds of its surface area. The timelapse tracks decades of unsustainable water diversion, warming temperatures and megadrought, exposing thousands of square kilometres of toxic lakebed. As water levels plunged to record lows in 2022, the lake lost nearly three-quarters of its volume. What disappears isn’t just water: declining salinity-tolerant life like brine shrimp a

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Years of water diversions, climate change and an unprecedented drought has pushed the Great Salt Lake’s levels toward historic lows, CNN’s Lucy Kafanov reports. If no action is taken, it “will be an environmental, economic and really cultural catastrophe all in one,” wildlife biologist Jaimi Butler says. https://cnn.it/3BbF2F3 | CNN