Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring was a landmark in the development ... Carson wasn’t the first to realize how bioaccumulation and biomagnification work, but her work as an author and advocate helped ...

Rachel Carson grew up on a small Pennsylvania farm ... After her father's sudden death in 1935, she needed to find more regular work to help support her family. She was hired by the Bureau ...

Today host Lisa Dettmer spends the hour talking to Professor Lida Maxwell,  the author of the new book out by Stanford press called “ Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer love.” Rachel Carson, for ...

(from Silent Spring) Rachel Carson received a letter from a friend ... She brought a rare trio of assets to this work: scientific training, dedication to research, and literary flair.

and Other Tips via Rachel Carson for Twenty-First-Century Environmentalists," RCC ... This paragraph and the three that follow are from my earlier work, Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy ...

Stephanie Ritenbaugh Saturday, June 24, 2023 7:23 p.m. | Saturday, June 24, 2023 7:23 p.m. Overcast skies were a welcome sight for the hundreds of hikers who braved the Rachel Carson Trail on ...

All Mankind is in her debt', said one Senator on Rachel Carson's death in 1964 ... own health problems in order to complete her life's work. 'I could never again listen to a thrush's song if ...

Rachel Carson is the author of the best-seller “Silent Spring” and “The Sea Around Us,” which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential ...