It is strange to read Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” today, more than 50 years after its publication, in a handsome new edition from the Library of America. At the time the book hit the ...

Rachel Carson has been both a hero to environmentalists and the bane of the chemical and pesticide industries — and their political mouthpieces — ever since the 1962 publication of her seminal ...

Grass-roots activism led to the creation of the EPA Carson was sometimes called the "nun of nature" Experts: Few books had such an impact on public policy Rachel Carson wasn't someone you'd expect ...

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.

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.

Although she spent most of her career as a marine biologist, Rachel Carson (1907–1964) is remembered mostly for raising the alarm over the dangers of pollution and pesticides. Her book Silent ...

This was the proposition of Rachel Carson, successful scientist and science writer, author of Silent Spring, a 1962 book whose publication is linked to a nationwide ban on DDT and the creation of ...