People walk along a large expanse of salt crust where water covered only a few years ago at the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 9, 2024. In forty years, the Great Salt Lake has lost two-thirds of its surface area, a victim of an agricultural sector and a mining industry that consumes too much water, and of global warming which reduces the flow of the rivers that feed it, reaching a historic low in 2022. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)