Tag Archives : biosphere
The Medea Hypothesis: “life will cause its own end” (debunking the Gaia Hypothesis)
In The Christian Science Monitor,
Moises Velasquez-Manoff reviews the new book ‘The Medea Hypothesis’
that ‘looks at the opposite of the Gaia hypothesis and suggests that
life on Earth is self-destructive.’
The Gaia hypothesis, first formulated in the 1960s by the British
scientist James Lovelock as the “earth feedback hypothesis,” suggests
that [...]
Extension of Earth’s Life: A Billion Years
In a new study featured in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers aver that “[T]he Earth will be identifiable as an inhabited planet for nearly half the total lifetime of the Sun, an important point to consider in the search for life on extrasolar planets.”
The new study suggests that ‘the Earth could be [...]
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