Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a number of serial documentaries and films for the BBC using a playful mix of journalistic reportage and a wide range of avant-garde filmmaking techniques. The films are linked through their interest in using an

James Lovelock's 'Gaia hypothesis' has challenged conventional thinking about the nature of the earth as an integrated system. Gaia proposes that the earth acts like a living organism — that life is part of a self-regulating system, manipulating the phys

Dr. Hugh Malafry explains James Lovelock's controversial theory there there is one Life on Earth, and man is the nervous system The Earth works as a system and everything has its own role. Dr. Hugh Malafry explains how man is not living up to its role an

Environmental and Climate Activist Dan Bloom, explores one of the proposed and undesired outcomes for addressing climate change, "Polar Cities". Activist Dan Bloom considers himself an “accidental student of James Lovelock” who raises awareness of global

Despite their current woes, the Montreal Canadiens are one of the few sports franchises in North America that cannot be destroyed by failure or inept executives. Paul Chiasson/THE CANADIAN PRESS Fans of global cataclysm will be familiar with the Gaia The

We have seen earlier springs and nesting by birds, with summer migrants now staying the whole year, writes JOHN HOLDEN THE IRISH climate is the butt of jokes the world over. Rain, rain, rain with intermittent cold summers and inconsistent winters. Irish

One of my heroes, evolutionary microbiologist Lynn Margulis, died this past Thanksgiving. She was an amazing lady who was married to Carl Sagan for many years, and partnered with James Lovelock in discovering that the earth is an interconnected living gl

“The climate naysayers will surely challenge Burton Richter: What makes a mere physics professor an expert on climate change, even if he holds a Nobel Prize for finding some exotic particle inside the atom?The answer: The Stanford professor has been rese

We will do our best to survive, but sadly I cannot see the United States or the emerging economies of China and India cutting back in time, and they are the main source of emissions. The worst will happen and the survivors will have to adapt to a hell of

When Vivienne Westwood was four or five, she had an epiphany. "When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy." At the time she w

You could make a case for NOFX being one of the most pertinent and socially relevant bands to have emerged in the last 25-odd years - not because of frontman Fat Mike's abortive involvement with politics through Punkvoter a few years ago, but because lyr