Climate cycles seem incompatible with the Gaia notion of a hospitable planet (Image: Michael Appelt/Anzenberger/eyevine)
LIFE has steered Earth’s environment over billions of years, helping to keep it stable and comfortable for living things. That’s the crux of James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, which addresses enduring questions such as “how does our planet work?” and “how is it that Earth has remained continuously habitable for more than 2 billion years?”
Gaia is a fascinating hypothesis, but is it right? Working out the answer is particularly significant as we battle to be stewards of a planet with a human population of…
