The worst will happen and the survivors will have to adapt to a hell of a climate. In the spiral ribbons of our cells, you are here... You who come after, help us remember: we are your ancestors. Fill us with gladness for the work that must be done.

Lovelock argued that humanity's vast output of carbon dioxide over the past two centuries has prompted the deserts to spread towards the poles at an alarming rate. "I always thought we had an environmental problem," says Westwood, "but I hadn't...

Has having your daughter grow up more made you kind of look at a little bit more at what sort of world she’s going to grow up into? “Not so much. I’ve been reading this guy James Lovelock and he’s an 90-year-old scientist and he sees this global...

Margulis’s emphasis on symbiosis led naturally to a much more radical idea: Gaia. The concept and term (Gaia was the Greek goddess of the earth) were originally proposed in 1972 by James Lovelock, a British chemist and inventor. Gaia comes in many...

Re: Occupy moves us into a new era, Opinion Nov. 22 Linda McQuaig writes: “After only two months, the Occupy movement — without backing from billionaires or governments — seems to have moved us into a new era.” Wrong. We’ll only enter a “new era” if we...