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 ...

In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which captured the public’s imagination and led to a shift in the understanding of our relationship with the natural world. Her book ...

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 ...

There is a greenway trail and a conservation park named for her here, an alma mater university and a Rachel Carson grade school there — and, of course, the Silver Spring home where she would ...

Author Rachel Carson's book about the threat posed by the pesticide DDT ultimately led to the creation of the EPA and other environmental milestones.

Rachel Carson: Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Her scientific perspective about the ...

Biologist Rachel Carson's 1962 book The Silent Spring painted a picture of a world plagued by illness, where people and animals suddenly fall sick, and where fish and birds slowly disappear.

Decades after ‘Silent Spring,’ peregrine falcons thrive on Harrisburg’s Rachel Carson Building The predatory falcons, once completely wiped out in Pennsylvania, have settled on the 15th floor ledge of ...