the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring — which some called the most controversial book of the year — put the nation and world on alert to the dangers of overuse and misuse of ...

All Mankind is in her debt', said one Senator on Rachel Carson's death in 1964 ... were a regular occurrence in the US, Carson's book 'Silent Spring' questioned the logic of releasing large ...

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 ...

Silent Spring "made people think about the environment in a way they never had before. . . . Rachel Carson introduced to the general imagination the idea of ecology." Her book is often cited as ...

and her work there ripples into the present, when a group of scientists connect the base's work to mysterious deaths in their community. In the first episode, she receives the book "Silent Spring" by ...

In 1962, Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring," a landmark book that ignited the modern environmental movement by exposing ...

Rachel Carson had released her book Silent Spring, which highlighted the hazards of the pesticide DDT and questioned humanity's faith in technological progress. Carson's book influenced social change ...

The young Ye gets in trouble for reading Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring — from which she develops the philosophy that evil (like what happened to her father) was an inherent part of humanity, and ...

Among them are world-renowned environmentalist and Springdale native Rachel Carson reading her book “Silent Spring,” a Springdale High School band member, and athletes on the Lower Valley ...

At the time, the chemical was being targeted by environmentalists like Silent Spring author Rachel Carson, who claimed DDT caused cancer and killed wildlife. Activists sued the EPA to stop the use ...

Another alarm rang out in 1962 with Rachel Carson’s book, “Silent Spring.” Her influential book exposed the loss of birds, primarily due to pesticides. Her writing raised awareness about ...

especially for Rachel Carson, a famous nature writer in the 1950s and 1960s. Carson, who was a marine biologist by trade, used her growing fear of complete and utter silence to write her most popular ...