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.

James Lovelock lives with his wife, Sandy, in an old coastguard's cottage less than 100 metres from Chesil beach in Dorset. To reach it, you have to drive along a rough, mile-long road, which in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As you travel along the drive to James Lovelock's house, located in a remote, wooded valley on the Cornwall-Devon border, you pass a sign by a gated cattle grid. "Experimental station," it reads.