A widespread and commonly used pesticide that has been called “the new DDT” has been found in elevated levels in some of the state’s largest rivers, causing potential harm to aquatic ecosystems and ...

Ultimately, this led to a ban of DDT in the United States; many other countries followed suit. Decades later, with malaria on the rise, critics of Rachel Carson charge that she is to blame for ...

“The nightmare legacy of DDT continues to rear its ugly head,” said attorney Charlie Tebbutt. “Since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the world has known of DDT’s destructive impacts. It is time for the ...

Most know Rachel Carson for her work on the dangers of chemical pollutants ... contributed to the initiation of a federal ban on the use of the synthetic organic compound DDT, and to the creation of ...

DDT came into common use around 1939 (though ... think about the environment in a way they never had before. . . . Rachel Carson introduced to the general imagination the idea of ecology." ...

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 ...

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 ...