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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Sep 11, 2024, 5:41 PM Edit. Share. Copy link; ... building on the momentum Carson’s work had generated. The book’s influence was not confined to the United States.

In the wake of the recent United Nations Climate Summit in Dubai at which nearly 200 nations agreed to work toward weaning the world off fossil fuels, it is worth looking back 61 years to another e… ...

When Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published in 1962, the book became a phenomenon. A passionate and eloquent warning about the long-term dangers of pesticides, the book unleashed an ...