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

Angelaki, Vol. 29, Issue. 4, p. 14. In 1972, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis began collaborating on the Gaia hypothesis. They suggested that over geological time, life on Earth has had a major role ...

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Few Earth science concepts are as controversial and enticing as the Gaia hypothesis — the idea, first introduced by chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s ...

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.

and in doing so managed to bolster the theory that our galaxy had already formed a significant population of its stars before it collided with another small galaxy called the Gaia-Enceladus ...

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.

His 1960s Gaia theory found that Earth, from rocks to air, was one huge interconnected and self-regulating system. His work formed the basis of much of climate science. And he had warned climate ...

Gaia mission data, which precisely pinpoints ... indicating the presence of more than one star. This led to the hypothesis that vampire stars might interact with two companion stars, not just ...