Peter Vickers receives funding from Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (RPG-2021-274). Henry Taylor receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council Impact Acceleration Account ...

Getting the balance right What we probably want is balance. On one side, we have the lack of direct empirical evidence and the reluctance of responsible scientists to speculate. On the other side ...

Few Earth science concepts are as controversial and enticing as the Gaia hypothesis—the idea, first introduced by chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s, that Earth ...