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 ...

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 ...

Geologists at the University of Maryland have published research that could help prove or disprove Gaia theory-- the notion that the Earth is one single self ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leading environmental scientist and creator of the Gaia hypothesis James Lovelock has died on his 103rd birthday. The climate scientist died at home on Tuesday surrounded by loved ones, his family ...

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 ...

We will likely never know how life on Earth started. Perhaps in a shallow sunlit pool. Or in the crushing ocean depths miles beneath the surface near fissures in the Earth's crust that spewed out hot ...

LONDON (AP) — 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.