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 ...

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.

Read with us! KQED's Climate Book Club is taking up "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson. We will gather to discuss during the Night of Ideas at the San Francisco Public Library on April 11. Our guest ...

—Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (p. 297) The publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 is widely regarded as one of the major events that launched the modern environmental movement. Silent ...

pt. I.A legacy of activism and advocacy -- One patriot / Terry Tempest Williams -- Rachel Carson's scientific and ocean legacies / Jane Lubchenco -- Rachel Carson and George J. Wallace : why public ...

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 ...

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will open "Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: Rachel Carson's Environmental Vision" May 18–Oct. 4, a celebration of the unassuming environmentalist.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in ...