A naturalist spoke last night to Tech students about a theory that sees the Earth as a living organism.Martin Ogle, Chief Naturalist for the national park Potomac Outlook, in Northern Virginia spoke ...

A new twist has been given to the 'Gaia' theory that aims to explain why conditions on Earth have remained stable enough for life to evolve over billions of years. A time-honoured theory into why ...

The daisy world model describes a hypothetical planet that self-regulates, maintaining a delicate balance involving its biogeochemical cycles, climate, and feedback loops that keep it habitable. It's ...

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, ...

Jim Lovelock (never ‘James’) is remembered as the father of the Gaia hypoth-esis: the idea that Earth is a self-regulating living organism. Few accepted his argument that this should be elevated to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Love rarely gets the credit it deserves for the advancement of science. Nor, for that ...