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The Great Salt Lake shrinks
2022
Great Salt Lake, Utah
Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · Wikimedia Commons
The lake fell to its lowest recorded level in 2022, exposing hundreds of square miles of lakebed laced with arsenic and mercury from a century of mining. The dust blows onto two million people, and the state has begun buying back water rights to refill it.
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