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 ...

FILE - Scientist and inventor James Lovelock, 94, poses with one of his early inventions, a homemade Gas Chromatography device, used for measuring gas and molecules present in the atmosphere, during a ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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.