‘Silent Spring’ comes to life in DDT-stricken town. By Gabriel Dunsmith | 02/02/2017 01:10 PM EST . For years, when spring rolled around in St. Louis, Mich., songbirds dropped to the ground, dead.

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.

Rachel Carson’s seminal 1962 book, Silent Spring, told the real-life story of how bird populations across the country were suffering as a result of the widespread application of the synthetic ...

Laura: DDT is thought of as an example of successful environmental regulation. It’s a dangerous chemical that was banned in part because of the efforts of Rachel Carson. Her book Silent Spring ...

In "Silent Spring," Carson described in detail how chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides persisted in the environment long ... Bans on DDT and other highly persistent pesticides opened the door to ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The pesticide DDT is still killing robins 50 years after Rachel Carson started the environmental movement with DDT warnings in her book: "Silent Spring." Back in September 1962 ...

He is also right to say she was a “keen compiler of data” when writing her most famous work, “Silent Spring” (1962). But how she interpreted that data, and presented it to her public, is ...

A Silent Spring The World Explodes With Life As Season Changes Nature. Apr 13, 2019. Margaret Foley. Bald Eagle populations fell when DDT caused the shells of their eggs to soften. Volunteers of all ...

Carson devoted herself to destroying this illusion in her landmark book "Silent Spring," the 1962 polemic against the heedless use of synthetic pesticides such as DDT and its several toxic cousins.