'Silent Spring' sparked a movement that saved some of our most iconic wildlife species from extinction Author Rachel Carson’s book about the threat posed by the pesticide DDT ultimately led to ...

In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring," a bestselling book that asserted that overuse of pesticides was harming the environment and threatening human health ...

Carson devoted herself to destroying this illusion in her landmark book "Silent Spring," the 1962 polemic against the heedless use of synthetic pesticides such as DDT and its several toxic cousins.

Silent Spring argued that the overuse of these artificial pesticides was poisoning not just insects, but many other animals – including people. For example, DDT can cause bird eggshells to thin ...

Silent Spring, Rachel Carson’s landmark warning about the indiscriminate use of pesticides, turns 50 this month. By extension, that puts the environmental movement also at the half-century mark ...

Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 investigation into the harmful effects of DDT and other pesticides on the environment.

She decided to write about it and let people know. DDT came into common use around 1939 (though invented in 1874), especially for insect control for the army during World War II.

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 ...

She charted the damage wreaked by DDT on ecosystems in North America in meticulous detail, citing numerous studies. After the insecticide was used in British Columbia in 1957, salmon populations ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Rachel Carson's book, "Silent Spring" was first published on September 27, 1962, and its impact caused a wave of change that is still felt 60 years later. Her voice was a ...

Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking investigation into the harmful effects of DDT and other pesticides on the environment.