A climate scientist in Chile has estimated that a tree there may be more than 5,000 years old, making it the oldest tree on earth. Host Marco Werman tells the story of the Alerce Milenario, recently dated by Jonathan Barichivich, a Chilean environmental scientist who works at the Climate and Environmental Sciences Laboratory in Paris.
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