The smokestack chimney from the Kennecott Copper Smelter near the Great Salt Lake is seen amid the morning haze from California wildfires, as winds blow in the direction of Salt Lake City, Utah, on September 11, 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 consume 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)