title: What is the difference between conda 'base' and 'root' enviroments?
body: <p>I have recently been pulling my hair out trying to organize my conda environments. I ended up reinstalling miniconda and I'm in a good spot.</p>
  
  <p>My question is this, when I run <code>conda env list</code> I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code># conda environments:
  #
  base                  *  /Users/rheft/miniconda3
  sonny36                  /Users/rheft/miniconda3/envs/sonny36
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would expect "root" to be included here. Further more when I look at my conda environments from inside jupyter notebooks there are 3 environments listed. </p>
  
  <pre><code>root         -- /Users/rheft/miniconda3
  miniconda3   -- /Users/rheft/miniconda3
  sonny36      -- /Users/rheft/miniconda3/envs/sonny36
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My question is why is it that <code>root</code> doesn't show when I run <code>conda env list</code>?  Although everything works correctly, I would like to remove the duplicated environment if possible, any suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks!</p>