Among the most seminal of these works is Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962. With its meticulous research and impassioned advocacy, Silent Spring illuminated the grave ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/Rachel-carson-malaria-and-silent-spring/ In 1962, the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring — which ...

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Her scientific perspective about the effect of pesticides on the natural world sparked ...

Franny Armstrong, creator of The Age of Stupid, looks at the explosive impact of Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring and its role in the growth of the environmental movement. Franny Armstrong ...

Rachel Carson is an intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world. When Silent Spring was published in September 1962 it became ...

A show called "Runoff," opening Saturday at the University at Buffalo’s Anderson Gallery, presents two floors of diverse ...

Rachel Carson's book, "Silent Spring," published seven years earlier, had lit the spark. The mild-mannered government scientist documented how the pesticide DDT was jeopardizing countless bird ...

In contrast, Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” sent a cry that affected the whole world’s view and action on the dangers of the then insecticide/soil treatments in use. Her foresight and ...

The country has learned a lot since Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring alerted us to the hazards of poisonous chemicals. But pesticide use still poses major threats to imperiled wildlife and ...

Rachel Carson, marine biologist and author, in Silent Spring "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in ...

Carson’s family wrote me: “We thought that the height of the ledge at Rachel’s place would have ... in her final years, to ...