James Lovelock's Recipes for Saving the Planet 'I Would Not Waste My Fortune on Colonizing Mars' James Lovelock is known for being one of the most important pioneers of the environmental movement. His ...

LONDON — 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.

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, ...

Australian climate scientist Andy Pitman only met James Lovelock once at a conference and remembers a "classic elderly, charming Englishman", but it's an image that belies nothing short of a ...

Lovelock's wife and children said Wednesday that he died the previous evening 'in his home surrounded by his family,' from complications related to a fall. His contribution to environmental science ...

James Lovelock will always be associated with one big idea: Gaia. The Oxford English Dictionary defines this as “the global ecosystem, understood to function in the manner of a vast self-regulating ...