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Utah’s salt flats are shrinking, leaving racers in a lurch. Scientists are trying to figure out why.

Bonneville Salt Flats have thinned by one-third in the last 60 years, cutting race tracks from 13 miles to 8.

(Rick Bowmer | Associated Press) State of Utah Department of Natural Resources geologists Paul Inkenbrandt, left, and Jeremiah Bernau walk along the Bonneville Salt Flats on Aug. 29, 2022, near Wendover, Utah. The glistening white salt of the world famous area is shrinking near the Utah-Nevada line.