Utah's Great Salt Lake is reaching a historically low level of water, which impacts greatly as a threat for hundreds of species including humans.
As the rate of global warming rises faster, a 'megadrought' is expected to continue relentlessly in western US states which forces regions to declare states of emergency. This includes exacerbating wildfires that have been going on for months.
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The Utah drought had dried up America's "Dead Sea", nearly nine feet lower water level than the long-term average of the lake.
As the largest salt water body in the western hemisphere, this is rather concerning for scientists not just in an environmental sense, but the 'knock-on effects' it imposes to human health, along with wildlife, as long as it persists for years.