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James Lovelock

November 2024

  • Prof James Lovelock in 2004. Photograph: Tim Cuff/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair – podcast

    Scientist James Lovelock gave humanity new ways to think about our home planet – but some of his biggest ideas were the fruit of a passionate collaboration. By Jonathan Watts

October 2024

  • Stephan Harding

    Other lives
    Stephan Harding obituary

    Other lives: Ecologist and teacher at Schumacher College, who worked with James Lovelock on Gaia theor

September 2024

  • Prof James Lovelock in 2004.

    The long read
    A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair

    The long read: Scientist James Lovelock gave humanity new ways to think about our home planet – but some of his biggest ideas were the fruit of a passionate collaboration

August 2024

  • Sunrise over planet earth<br>CNHYTE Sunrise over planet earth

    Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr review – our planet: a living, breathing, mutating miracle

    The US-based journalist has fashioned a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of how everything from microbes to mammoths transformed our world into a living organism

December 2022

  • James Lovelock in 2009.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2022
    James Lovelock remembered by John Gray

    The author and philosopher looks back on his friendship with the creator of the Gaia theory, who was ‘the closest to genius’ of anyone he has met

October 2022

  • FILES-FRANCE-SCIENCE-PHILOSOPHY-LATOUR-OBIT<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 3, 2021 French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist Bruno Latour poses during a photo session Paris. - French Philosopher Bruno Latour, figure of ecological thought died, announced his editor on October 9, 2022. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP) (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

    Bruno Latour obituary

    French philosopher whose work spanned many disciplines and who believed we must take greater care of the Earth’s resources

August 2022

  • James Lovelock

    Science Weekly
    James Lovelock and the legacy of his Gaia hypothesis – podcast

  • England's Ella Toone scores her side's first goal during the Women's Euro 2022 final soccer match between England and Germany at Wembley stadium in London, Sunday, July 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Leila Coker)

    Brief letters
    Lionesses inspire our grandson with their win

July 2022

  • Author, ecologist, inventor and scientist Professor James Lovelock in his laboratory at home on the Devon Cornwall border UK.. Image shot 2004. Exact date unknown.<br>A4GTM3 Author, ecologist, inventor and scientist Professor James Lovelock in his laboratory at home on the Devon Cornwall border UK.. Image shot 2004. Exact date unknown.

    The Observer view on the brilliant James Lovelock, co-creator of the Gaia theory

    The polymath, who died last week, fought against the intellectual confines that stifle scientists
  • Jon Watts and James Lovelock

    Conversations with James Lovelock, the scientist at the end of the world

    Interviewing Jim for a biography revealed there was far more to him – and his influence on the modern world – than almost anyone realises

    • James Lovelock obituary

    • James Lovelock talks about his Gaia hypothesis and climate change in 2014 interview – video

    • James Lovelock, creator of Gaia hypothesis, dies on 103rd birthday

July 2020

  • The scientist and environmental thinker James Lovelock near his home on the Dorset coast<br>Pics - Adrian Sherratt - 07976 237651 The scientist and environmental thinker James Lovelock near his home on the Dorset coast (22 Sep 2016).

    James Lovelock: 'The biosphere and I are both in the last 1% of our lives'

    On the eve of his 101st birthday, the father of the Gaia theory discusses Covid-19, extreme weather… and freezing hamsters

December 2019

  • James Lovelock

    Today in Focus
    Inside the mind of scientist James Lovelock

    James Lovelock, who turned 100 this year, discusses his life’s work. And: Samantha Power on finding ways to make a difference

July 2019

  • James Lovelock in 2016

    James Lovelock at 100 says asteroids pose key threat to humanity

  • James Lovelock pictured near his home on the Dorset coast in September 2016

    The Guardian view on James Lovelock: Earth, but not as we knew it

December 2018

  • NASA MARKS EARTH DAY<br>This NASA image obtained on April 22, 2009, Earth Day, shows the Earthrise over the moon made on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968 from Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, as it entered lunar orbit. William Anders

    Earthrise: the story behind our planet's most famous photo

    When Bill Anders took this photograph from the Apollo spacecraft on Christmas Eve in 1968, our relationship with the world changed forever

September 2016

  • The scientist and environmental thinker James Lovelock near his home on the Dorset coast<br>Pics - Adrian Sherratt - 07976 237651 The scientist and environmental thinker James Lovelock near his home on the Dorset coast (22 Sep 2016).

    Saturday interview
    James Lovelock: ‘Before the end of this century, robots will have taken over’

    Fracking is great, the green movement is a religion, his dire predictions about climate change were nonsense – and robots don’t mind the heat, so what does it matter anyway? At 97, the creator of Gaia theory is as mischievous and subversive as ever

April 2015

  • Rachel Louise Carson (May 27 1907 – April 14 1964)

    Leadership
    The lasting legacy of quiet leadership

    Malcolm McIntosh
    Quiet leaders shun the limelight today, but with their hard work, perseverance and results they achieve recognition in the long-term
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