For years, when spring rolled around in St. Louis, Mich., songbirds dropped to the ground, dead. For years, when spring rolled around in St. Louis, Mich., songbirds dropped to the ground, dead. Locals ...

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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 ...

"Over increasingly large areas of the United States spring now comes unheralded by the return of birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird ...

As the world celebrates the 100th birthday of environmental icon Rachel Carson, policymakers are proposing bills to honor her. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., stands largely alone in efforts to stop these ...

Within Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” are haunting words about a place where birds cease to sing. The cause behind the lack of singing birds was DDT, a chemical banned for agricultural use ...

In one of President John F. Kennedy‘s famous interactive press conferences, on Aug. 29, 1962, a reporter asked if he planned to respond to the warnings in Rachel Carson’s seminal book, “A Silent ...

Sixty years ago, a talented biologist and writer working in Silver Spring, Md., published a book that changed the world for the better Rachel Carson was an unlikely revolutionary. For 16 years, from ...

Spraying from either a ground-based vehicle or an airplane is a common method for applying pesticides. Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published ...

Bald Eagle populations fell when DDT caused the shells of their eggs to soften. I don’t think I really appreciated how still and quiet winter was until spring has arrived. Suddenly, without fail, the ...