Over 170 miles away from a single other tree, the ‘world’s loneliest tree,’ a Sitka spruce, rests on Campbell Island, around 400 miles south of New Zealand, in the Southern Ocean. New Zealand governor Lord Ranfurly planted the tree sometime in the early 20th century, and researchers are scrutinizing the tree to see what it can tell us about the Anthropocene. They’ve set a date for the start of the geological age in which humans are the dominant influence on the environment.
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