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Following the buzzy Netflix debut of “3 Body Problem” this past weekend, the sci-fi book series on which the show is based, “Remembrance of Earth’s Past,” in addition to a title frequently mentioned ...

Rachel Carson, whose book Silent Spring helped spark the modern environmental movement, would have been 100 years old Sunday. Her work continues to stir up controversy on Capitol Hill. Today would ...

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 ...

In her groundbreaking book "Silent Spring," Rachel Carson jolted a prosperous post-war America — a country confident that science and technology were leading the way to a future in which disease and ...