On March 17, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill making Artemia franciscana, the brine shrimp, Utah’s official state crustacean. The designation, inspired by the activism of a sixth-grade classroom, ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah may be a state without an ocean, but the Beehive state is becoming known, and relied upon, across the globe for its seafood. A tiny shrimp that thrives in the dense, hyper-saline ...

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The Great Salt Lake is so dry, and its water so salty, that resource managers have partially closed a breach in a railroad causeway to stem the flow of hypersaline water between the north and south ...