RIO DE JANEIRO: Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop located off the coast of Brazil, is one of the most remote places on Earth, requiring a three- to four-day boat trip to reach. Geologist.
There are few places on Earth as isolated as Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop a three- to four-day boat trip off the coast of Brazil. So geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an unsettling sign of human impact on the otherwise untouched landscape: rocks formed from the glut of pla ..