Then in 1962, the book “Silent Spring,” by author and marine biologist Rachel Carson, used science to expose the “shadow of death” cast by DDT.

In "Silent Spring," Carson described in detail how chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides persisted in the environment long ... Bans on DDT and other highly persistent pesticides opened the door to ...

DDT came into common use around 1939 (though invented in 1874), ... As Esquire magazine wrote, Silent Spring "made people think about the environment in a way they never had before. . . .

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 ...

DDT (short for dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane) was first synthesized by a German chemist in 1874, ... Silent Spring—III. By Rachel Carson. Annals of Medicine.

But then came DDT. DDT was the miracle ... Silent Spring was the spur for the Environmental Protection Agency (1970), the Clean Water Act (1972), and the Endangered Species Act (1973).

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.

DDT was a health threat to humans too, Carson explained. The toxic chemical accumulates in the body and has been linked to cancer and other illnesses. Carson died of cancer less than two years ...

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 ...

Part II of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 series on the environmental impact of DDT and other ... Rachel Carson is the author of the best-seller “Silent Spring” and “The Sea ...