Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Scientist and inventor James Lovelock, 94, poses with one of his early inventions, a homemade Gas Chromatography device, ...

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 ...

Hans Schellnhuber is an adviser to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences. In the peer-reviewed Nature paper “Climbing the co-evolution ladder” (431, 913 (21 October 2004)) he and two co-authors ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Mankind's awareness of our impact on the planet has fundamentally ...

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 ...

LIFE has steered Earth’s environment over billions of years, helping to keep it stable and comfortable for living things. That’s the crux of James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, which addresses enduring ...

What if all life on an alien planet was one giant superorganism? A team of scientists claims the arrangement might actually be the norm. They’ve dubbed the concept “Gaia as Solaris” — and it could ...

A time-honoured theory into why conditions on Earth have remained stable enough for life to evolve over billions of years has been given a new, innovative twist. For around half a century, the 'Gaia' ...

A British ecologist, he captured imaginations with his hypothesis and was essential to today’s understanding of man-made pollutants and their effect on the climate. By Keith Schneider James Lovelock, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. We will likely never know how life on Earth started. Perhaps in a ...

James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist whose influential Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living organism gravely imperiled by human activity, has died on his 103rd birthday. Lovelock's ...