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150 years of change: How old photos of the Uinta Mountains, recaptured, reveal a shifting climate

A team of scientists is re-creating historical pictures to study how much, and how quickly, Utah ecosystems are changing.

(William Henry Jackson (1870); Joanna Corimanya, Anahí Quezada and Townsend Peterson (2024) via The New York Times) The Uinta Mountains in 1870, overlaid with images from 2001 and 2024. At center is a formation known as the Red Castle.