At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in particular promised to combat insects that carried diseases or ...

New Takes on the classics. Throughout our centennial year, we’re revisiting notable works from the archive. Sign up to receive them directly in your inbox. Before Carson turned to writing books, she ...

The reception of Silent Spring: an introduction / Craig Waddell -- Chemical fallout: Silent Spring, radioactive fallout, and the environmental movement / Ralph H. Lutts -- An inventional archaeology ...

YORK, Maine — The York Art Association welcomes spring with its opening exhibit, “Silent Spring,” a show inspired by the season and honoring the legacy of environmentalist and author Rachel Carson.

That was well understood by evolutionists early on, but it took a marine biologist and talented writer, Rachel Carson, to bring the pesticide problem to public attention and, incidentally, to launch ...

After following up a lead from a birdwatcher, Rachel Carson drew a web of connections that led to one of the most influential books of the 20th century. Silent Spring (1962) investigated the synthetic ...

Have you seen the Robins? Rachel Carson's mother and the tradition of women naturalists -- Don't harm the people: Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, and their heirs take on polluting ...

Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which captured the public’s imagination and led to a shift in the ...

In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which captured the public’s imagination and led to a shift in the understanding of our relationship with the natural world. Her book ...