Among the most seminal of these works is Rachel ... momentum Carson’s work had generated. The book’s influence was not confined to the United States. Around the world, Silent Spring inspired ...

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 ...

We have returned to the most peaceful place I have ever known: a simple retreat built in the 1950s by Rachel Carson ...

Sunil Amrith’s The Burning Earth takes us on a gloomy and bleak tour of how, in the name of progress, Western empires made a ...

High up in the trees, in her favorite hunting spot, the green anole is patient, her bright, black eyes swiveling ...

declines in migrating raptor numbers helped expose the dangers of DDT and other pesticides and herbicides that would be banned following the publication of “Silent Spring” by yet another ...

I learned — and wrote — about Rachel Carson and her amazing life work. Her research into pollutants and her book “Silent Spring” became the impetus for the creation of our nation’s ...

She sits, her sleek, green body invisible in the tangle ... their place on the planet as part of a system isn’t new. In Rachel Carson’s iconic environmental book ”Silent Spring,” she argues that “man ...