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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 ...

Attacks on Rachel Carson and her seminal 1962 environmental treatise "Silent Spring" are rising again. Don't believe them.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.