{"id":442508,"date":"2018-02-20T08:17:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T12:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=05d050ae4fc24af24277ebd7e693959d"},"modified":"2018-02-20T08:17:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T12:17:11","slug":"anthropocene-began-in-1965-according-to-signs-in-the-worlds-loneliest-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=442508","title":{"rendered":"Anthropocene began in 1965, according to signs in the world&#8217;s &#8216;loneliest tree&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Campbell Island in the Southern Ocean, some 400 miles south of New Zealand, is a single Sitka spruce. More than 170 miles from any other tree, it is often credited as the &#8220;world&#8217;s loneliest tree&#8221;. Planted in the early 20th century by Lord Ranfurly, governor of New Zealand, the tree&#8217;s wood has recorded the radiocarbon produced by above ground atomic bomb tests \u2013 and its annual layers show a peak in 1965, just after the tests were banned. The tree therefore gives us a potential marker for the start of the Anthropocene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Campbell Island in the Southern Ocean, some 400 miles south of New Zealand, is a single Sitka spruce. More than 170 miles from any other tree, it is often credited as the &#8220;world&#8217;s loneliest tree&#8221;. Planted in the early 20th century by Lord Ranfurly, governor of New Zealand, the tree&#8217;s wood has recorded the radiocarbon produced by above ground atomic bomb tests &ndash; and its annual layers show a peak in 1965, just after the tests were banned. The tree therefore gives us a potential marker for the start of the Anthropocene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442509,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442508\/revisions\/442509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}