'World's loneliest tree' shows start of human impact on Earth

A century-old tree planted in New Zealand's Campbell Island, having no other tree around in a radius of over 200 km, has become a marker for changes made to the planet by humans, researchers have said. The tree's rings revealed a peak of nuclear activity in the late 1960s, showing the start of a new human-influenced geological epoch labelled Anthropocene.

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