A new book presents the first detailed and comprehensive analysis of the famous Gaia Hypothesis, and finds it to be inconsistent with modern evidence. In the 1970s James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis ...

James Lovelock was the pioneering scientist who first proposed and subsequently advanced the “Gaia” theory of Earth science, which has provided the much-needed context for understanding the current ...

James Lovelock, chemist, environmentalist and independent naturalist, has died aged 103. Associated Press reported that he died Tuesday evening at his home in southwest England "surrounded by his ...

In the past 50 years it has become commonplace to think of Earth as a nurturing place, straining mightily to maintain equilibrium so that life might continue and flourish. The Gaia hypothesis, named ...

IN 2020 JAMES LOVELOCK told the Observer, a British Sunday paper, that “the biosphere and I are both in the last 1% of our lives”. He was wrong about himself, by a factor of about two: he died on July ...

The animated sci-fi series Scavenger’s Reign takes viewers to the strange planet of Vesta, where womb-like sacks hang from trees and floating fluff balls stick to skin. It’s a hostile and merciless ...

Among his many other enthusiasms, James Lovelock was a passionate walker. His greatest achievement, he often felt, was to have walked in his 80s all 630 miles of England’s south-west coastal path. As ...

To quote a famous fictional lion, the Earth is a beautiful circle of life — predators and prey, plants and animals keeping each other in perfect balance. This idea — of Earth’s lifeforms as ...

When I started to learn about evolution, it was apparent that the Gaia hypothesis would be an odd ball. While it is possible, no selection is observed to happen above the individual level. (E.g. no ...

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. James Lovelock had helped to set the stage for Earth system science through his exploration of what he and his colleague Lynn Margulis termed ...

The Gaia hypothesis is a theory put forward, c.1972 by a British chemist, James Lovelock, and an American biologist, Lynn Margulis, that the living and the non-living matter defines and regulates ...