The titular James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis posited that the world is an interconnected super-organism, and the state of the oceans a way of ascertaining the health of this system. Evaporation’s ...

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.

One of the most mind-blowing and controversial Earth science concepts has to be the Gaia hypothesis. The idea was first […] ...

Proposed in the 1970s by chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis, the Gaia hypothesis suggests Earth operates as a self-regulating organism, maintaining conditions for life.

British scientist James Lovelock, who devoted his life to the global green movement, has died on his 103rd birthday, his family has said. His 1960s Gaia theory found that Earth, from rocks to air ...

In the 1970s, chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis put forth a bold theory: The Earth is a giant living organism. When a mammal is hot, it sweats to cool itself off. If you nick ...