Learn about the controversial Gaia hypothesis, stating that Earth is its own living system kept in balance by organisms.

Scholars have suggested that the Gypsy Girl, named for the wild look in her eyes, might be Gaea, goddess of the Earth. Hesiod, the 8th-century B.C. Greek poet, whose account of how the gods came ...

Ancient Greeks revered the mother and honored her as the giver of life centuries before Mother's Day became popular in the West.