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. Carson ...

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Carson’s scientific perspective and rigor created a work of substantial depth ...

Rachel Carson’s famous and brilliant book Silent Spring (1962), which single-handedly ignited the environmental movement, has never been more relevant than it is today. A mimeo of Silent Spring is ...

Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring” in 1962. In honor of Women’s History Month and the 60th anniversary of Carson’s seminal work, I wanted to look back at this remarkable woman and her life’s work ...

More than half a century has passed since Rachel Carson meticulously exposed government and corporate poisoning of the planet with synthetic pesticides. Serialized in the New Yorker in weekly ...

Rachel Carson’s sea trilogy well deserves a Library of America edition; Danny Heitman is right to praise the eloquence of her nature writing (Books, March 4). He is also right to say she was a “keen ...

In 1962, a former marine biologist published a book that would alter the way millions of Americans, and eventually people around the world, understood humanity’s relationship with nature. The book ...